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Akasa Paxpower 500 W Power Supply Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: June 9, 2009
Page: 6 of 10
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Power Distribution

In Figure 14, you can see the power supply label containing all the power specs.

Akasa Paxpower 500 W power supply
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Figure 14: Power supply label.

As you can see this power supply has two +12 V rails, which are distributed like this:

  • +12V1 (solid yellow wire): All cables but one of the ATX12V connectors.
  • +12V2 (yellow with black stripe wire): One of the ATX12V connectors.

This distribution is really strange. Both ATX12V connectors should be connected to the second rail, but only one of them are. This showed to be a problem during our tests, as we will explain in the next page.

Now let’s see if this power supply can really deliver 500 W.
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