We decided to disassemble this power supply to see how it looks like inside, what is the design used and what components are used. Please read our Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies tutorial to understand how a power supply works inside and to compare this power supply to others.

In this page we will have an overall look, while on the next pages we will discuss in details the quality and rating of the components used.

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Figure 4: Overall look.

One interesting thing about this power supply is that it uses its housing as an extension to the secondary heatsink, as you can see on Figures 5 and 6. The manufacturer used thermal grease between the secondary heatsink and the power supply housing.

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Figure 5: The power supply housing is also used as a heatsink.

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Figure 6: The power supply housing is also used as a heatsink.

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Figure 7: Overall look.

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Figure 8: Overall look.