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Originally posted by Undertoad
FWIW I have tested a Sparkle with a multimeter and the voltages were sound, ...
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Only MBA trained management believes one can test for quality. Every defectively designed power supply will provide correct voltages during their lifetime. Those voltage measurements say nothing about supply quality. But then readers of W E Deming's book "Out of Crisis" (last time I looked, it was in its 26th printing) would recognize that voltage measurements are classic symptoms of an organization that had no quality. The point here being that every reader should have immediately recognized that voltage measurements report nothing useful. If it was not that obvious, then concepts of quality have not yet been learned. Concepts of quality are not always so obvious until after they have been learned.
The Sparkle power supply is dumped in America because so many so called computer experts recommend technology they don't even understand.
BTW, that voltage test is the exact same reasoning that sent 7 Challenger astronauts to death. "It worked just fine yesterday - therefore it will launch just fine today." IOW "engineers are only dumb idiots. Thank goodnes we managers are so much smarter."
The Sparkle tech numbers say it is crap. The O' rings on a similar and (one year) previous shuttle launch said quite loudly that Challenger should not be launched. Like the Sparkle recommendation, the shuttle manager 'expert' need not first read the numbers or understand technology principles. He just knows like so many clone computer assemblers who buy crap power supplies on one spec - price.
VSP - I am suggesting where your problem may have been created. However we first need those numbers from the multimeter.
Notice the price and specs provided by UT's "my own personal PSU". It claims to include essential functions - therefore costs maybe double.