Introduction (Cont’d)

The AC power cord has gold-plated terminals, a really fancy feature. It also has a ferrite bead, which works as a filtering device.

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Figure 9: The main AC power cord has gold-plated terminals and a ferrite bead.

Tagan TG1100-U95 uses a 24-pin motherboard connector that can be transformed into a 20-pin one, see Figure 10. This main motherboard cable uses 16 AWG wires (the wires used by the standard peripheral cables are thinner, 18 AWG).

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Figure 10: Main motherboard connector.

This power supply comes with four adapters that allow you to convert any Serial ATA power connector into a standard peripheral power connector. This is the first time we saw this feature.

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Figure 11: Adapters to convert SATA power connectors into standard peripheral connectors.

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Figure 12: SATA power connector converted into a standard peripheral connector.

This power supply comes with nine peripheral power cables: four PCI Express auxiliary power cables, one “special” standard peripheral cable with just one connector, two Serial ATA power cables with three SATA power connectors each, one Serial ATA power cable with four SATA power connectors and one peripheral power cable with three standard peripheral connectors. This power supply comes also with one “Y” cable for converting one standard peripheral connector into two floppy disk drive power connectors. It also comes with four adapters that convert the SATA power connectors into standard peripheral connectors, as mentioned earlier.

Even though Tagan paid to have its own UL number, this power supply is really manufactured by Topower.

We decided to fully disassemble this power supply to take a look inside and see if its internal design was on the same level as its external design.

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