Young Year YP-AB Transparent Power Supply
By Gabriel Torres on January 15, 2007 Page 1 of 7

Introduction

Young Year YP-AB, which is also sold under several other brands (Aspire/Apevia, Levicom and Leadership), is an aluminum power supply with a big transparent acrylic cover, so you can see inside the power supply, being a very interesting choice for users that like transparent cases or cases with a transparent side window. Available in models ranging from 350 W to 520 W, in this article we fully disassembled this unit and discovered that internally it is a trashy “generic” power supply. Read on.

The external looks of this power supply really caught our attention (see Figures 2, 3 and 4) and that is why we decided to buy in order to take a better look. After removing it from its box, you need to peel off the transparent film that protects the unit, like shown on Figure 1.

Young Year YP-AB Transparent Power Supply
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Figure 1: Removing the transparent protective film that comes with this unit.

This power supply uses two 80-mm fans, one at its rear and the other on its front, as you can see on the pictures below.

Young Year YP-AB Transparent Power Supply
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Figure 2: Young Year YP-AB Power Supply.

Young Year YP-AB Transparent Power Supply
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Figure 3: Young Year YP-AB Power Supply.


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