Anyone Use A Power Supply Tester?

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

You cannot just use a volt-ohmmeter as certain wires or lines need a jumper or something like that to activate all the voltages of the supply.
I guess the testers have that internally. If you don't use the jumper in the right spot then part of the supply will read as dead.

Mine's just a little rinky dink thing, like any other simple electrical tester, plug it to a plugged in power supply unit and it all comes on, then you can test each connector into the same testers different inputs and test them while it's running

Originally Posted by Bear

Mine's just a little rinky dink thing, like any other simple electrical tester, plug it to a plugged in power supply unit and it all comes on, then you can test each connector into the same testers different inputs and test them while it's running

This is similar to the one I have, but I have the lcd output one where it reads voltages. This is ideal for any testing. Case in point. My media center pc which is a quad core with a 4650 vid card died one night. I was watching netflix and just shut down. I got it runnnig and it appeared hard drive was dead. So put another drive and tried reinstalling winblows. Kept crashing on reinstall. So I was pissed and left it be for the night. Next day got out the psu tester and found the 3.3 line dropping sporadically. Rest of the voltages decent. So obviously my trusty Antec Neopwer 500 modular psu finally croaked after 6 years of service. So yes you do need one that reads voltages. And 2 another case of point. Antec is the cats meow. I bought that psu off of Ebay used in 2007. It was used in many different machines over the years and used to test a lot of items. So Antec is the best you can ever buy. In fact, you guessed it. I ended up using a 400w antec I got out of a scrap computer and no issues whatsoever.