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Akasa Paxpower 500 W Power Supply Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: June 9, 2009
Page: 3 of 10
Real-time pricing for Thermaltake W0293RU.
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Tech Depot: $80.95 PCRush: $82.93

Transient Filtering Stage

As we mentioned on other articles and reviews, the first place we like to take a look when opening a power supply to have a hint about its quality is its filtering stage. The recommend components for this stage are two ferrite coils, two ceramic capacitors (Y capacitors, usually blue), one metalized polyester capacitor (X capacitor) and one MOV (Metal-Oxide Varistor). Very low-end power supplies use fewer components than that, usually removing the MOV and the first coil.

This stage is excellent, with one X capacitor and two Y capacitors more than needed.

Akasa Paxpower 500 W power supply
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Figure 7: Transient filtering stage (part 1).

Akasa Paxpower 500 W power supply
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Figure 8: Transient filtering stage (part 2).

Now let’s have a more detailed discussion on the components used on Akasa Paxpower 500 W.

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