PSU Testing Lab w/ Patrick Stone: Gigabyte Series
Added 2021-05-10 03:09:49 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
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This video is a behind-the-scenes look at the PSU testing lab. In this one, Patrick ("Stone," lest we be confused with other Patricks) walks through the testing procedures we're deploying for the Gigabyte PSU research. We don't yet have a conclusion, but we were able to make one PSU explode. We're still investigating and root-causing the issue.
We figured we'd make this video available early for Patreon. Of course, we'll have a full piece once we're ready with more information, and that'll go up on the public channel for everyone.
Thanks for your interest! We have another one that Stone hosted coming up soon, too. He talks about oscilloscope and PSU tester accessories in that one.
Comments
Is it just me or is the video not working?
Dudummeskind
2021-06-13 11:34:46 +0000 UTCPatrick "Hair" and Patrick "Losing Hair". Sorry for not remembering your names..
2021-06-04 01:00:33 +0000 UTCI haven't been impressed with Gigabyte products in recent years. I stopped buying them.
2021-05-12 12:30:45 +0000 UTCWe'll wait for GN's tear down, but my guess is the failure is the same as what Aris experience (PWM FET failure) since it actually blew the AC input fuse on the ATE. I would like to think it's a factory operator error that's causing this (e.g. not enough TIM on the MOSFET), but looking at Aris's tear down, it seems that the unit is pretty well built. So that means one of three things wrong: Terrible circuit design, poor choice of switchers or those Jilin Sino MOSFETs are complete garbage (I've never used them myself).
2021-05-11 19:17:08 +0000 UTCHave you considered changing Stone's name to Dwayne 'The Stone' Patrick?
2021-05-11 05:04:53 +0000 UTCSuper interested to know how this turns out, as we are a small repair shop with number of these psu. I contacted our distributor who basically said nothing wrong with them they have sold hundreds to System integrators who say they are ok. The Distro also claimed they had spoken with Gigabyte who said its all nonsense nothing wrong and the reviewer had the cables plugged in wrong so this was the fault. I had linked the hardwarebusters video. Funnily enough my account manager at this distro was also my account manager at gigabyte (UK)
John/Hokage
2021-05-10 09:42:37 +0000 UTCi would love to see the video of that exploding, if there is any video of it.
2021-05-10 06:01:44 +0000 UTCinteresting. I wonder if this applies to others using the same components
Leviathanprym
2021-05-10 05:17:33 +0000 UTCLOL! You got lucky! I've had shitty PSUs blow up and take out a load MOSFET and not just a fuse. :D
2021-05-10 03:15:10 +0000 UTCPatrick "The Great" Stone "Dragon"
MustangsbyMatt
2021-05-10 03:12:12 +0000 UTC
