this is my car this is my wife's car and this right here is the power supply
tester I just bought from chroma system solutions that cost more than both of
them combined why am I smiling because
with this I'm going to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff the
good from the bad we're going to be able to take power supplies like this and
blow them the freak up but of course in order to do that we're going to need to
open it up aren't we which is going to involve some uh heavy
tools oh I'm not supposed to do that you
can see he's genuinely upset I've been 6 months researching this what are you
doing man we're going to have some fun today and it's going to be sponsored by
Future lus here didn't get the memo till we were done filming but apparently this
video is sponsored by C Sonic imagine
having the stones the Swagger to sponsor
content about a piece of testing equipment that has the potential to to
make your products look bad compared to the competition clearly they've got a
lot of confidence in their products and you can check out seic power supplies at
the link down
below you swear on your mother's life that this is the good shiz right that's
what C Sonic said they help me spec this and then I basically just got their spec
just the newer stuff the newer stuff so we have better power supply testing
equipment than a Tier 1 power supply manufacturer I'm assuming they've
upgraded since we talked so maybe how strong are your wrists pretty good I
didn't bring an impact driver and there's a lot of screws up there L LTT
store.com you don't even have like a power anything no just use your guns man
oh my God I love our screwdriver but these are a little long to do by hand
there's like 25 of them it's all about
right tool for the job right how's your ARM man I almost beat you I got eight of
them out already dude we couldn't find impact drive is it a drill let me load
up an impact driver and then start working on these side
ones oh that didn't work waa this is looking real scientific
holy okay come here this is really cool now it's all fine and good to put
stickers on your package fragile this
side up we all know what couriers do they see that they go let's play point
the arrow down right well this guarantees they never did it if this
indicator is red make a notation of delivery receipt blah blah blah see
watch boom perar red that means it stayed right side up the whole time it
was in transit super cool right now that he's crumpled up the serial number in
theory these have serial numbers on them so that you know they weren't switched
in transit is this open now hold on hold on
hold on wait okay no it's okay it's fine we got no we got to get the moment no I
know I know it's one two 3 Let's Go
come on well fudge here we
go well that was a little anticlimactic check it out there's another one inside
come on David check so this indicates not only did it stay right side up but
it didn't tip because you can see the sand will like go to one side or
whatever test instrumentation and automated test systems power conversion
wow free us b key uh no no that's I
think that's the software key sofware yeah I don't know if it if it's true in
the new software we're getting but the old software that's the license key if
you lose that it's 70 grand replace it 70 grand I'm pulling the number up my
butt but it's it's expens don't lose that no no no no no no put put it back
how much power can this whole thing draw or does it the whole thing draw so
208 3phase at 50 amps is what it's rated
for what the that's what
Watt that's what the ca's rated for this is rated for 10,000 Watts uh maybe um I
haven't done the conversion in my head but we can only draw the maximum that
the source will allow and that's 3,500 Watts 3,500 Watts that means that we'll
be able to test basically any power supply on the market because anything
over about 2,000 watts is going to trip a North American breaker and anything
over about what is it like 2500 3,000 WTS that's going to trip a European
breaker anyway we're on the limit of what Europe can do oh this is really
cool you can see from the plug we've got a ground connection to this gigantic
bare metal strip here and then unlike a
normal server shelf these are bare metal as well and they're screwed in like this
what that means is that every single shelf every piece of metal in this
entire enclosure is grounded so in a
production environment that's important because well if a if a live Le would is
short to the chassis yeah and an operator was touching it you want to
make sure the operator isn't the lowest path to ground right so we'll have all
of these green wires everywhere right and even on the powder coated stuff
it'll go straight through they'll powder coat afterwards and make sure the stud
touches the actual metal that's also why the whole thing's enclosed locked safety
labels the whole shebang okay there's shall we take off
there's a monitor yeah there's a computer there's a computer on here
comes with a little shelf and everything yeah look at that I asked for the Shelf
oh okay how much did I pay for the Shelf $130,000 no no I mean just I have no
idea you didn't even ask what the different options are worth or anything
like to decide if we could have provided our own shelf maybe like how much should
I pay for this Logitech mouse oh not
even a rechargeable battery in there brother is there a computer did I pay
for a computer yes it's industrial grade Dell computer oh my god oh look it comes
with the key what is with all of these discs why do we have discs you even
included a USB key are they just all the same thing or what like oh my God Kyle
yes they don't expect us to build our own bloody cable harnesses here do they
those are like 24 pin ATX pins and
here's a 24 pin ATX connector do I have to like build my own DIY power supply
here or what why are you telling me this like you're the one who's actually going to be building this stuff well do you
understand how configurable this machine is trust me you want to build youring
cables you see all of these ones yeah you see how it says load 2 3 4 5 6
7even yeah those are these guys okay so if these like overcurrent or something
then would they blow their load no
no you know what we'll go through it once we actually do a rundown of each of
the modules um and I'll explain why those are important yeah check it out I
made a whole thing oh they actually connect together that's Prett cool yeah
that's not in but yeah that's what she said I think we should go bottom to top
reason being because that's where power comes in so this is a
3,000 volt amp AC so we'll be able to
test any PC power supply on the market and realistically just about any other
power supply as well so this is also a three-phase power supply it can do both
single and three-phase but we only have it hooked up for single phase right now
because we're only targeting adx power supplies eventually we might do service
stuff but that's in the future what's cool about this is it can do any
anything with the power so it can do 240
volts 50 HZ for European Brothers it can
do 11060 or 1260 for North America it can also start
injecting like yeah can we simulate dirty power dirty power power like bad
power so we can we can Brown out the power we can overvolt the power we can
inject harmonics into the actual AC sine wave like if you had a blender or some
crap running Elsewhere on the circuit like a very noisy like motor somewhere
that like feeding very like dirty a blender yeah or microwave or
something on the there's no motor in a microwave except it's been the turntable that's probably not the problem yeah
probably the worst thing to compare it to but it it it can do that and it can
do that all automatic thing what does this do all right so that's an onoff
controller it turns stuff on and off um oh my god really that's all it does uh
yeah what's this de ShortCircuit protection and ovp tester so basically
that will short out the power Supply the most fun test ever as well as it will
overvolt the power supply so it takes this is one of our likely fire starters
then right here maybe so what it does is it'll take voltage from the DC source
and add it to the output from the power supply so if you're getting 12 volts out
it will just like add a couple voltage to that and see if the power supply holy
crap this is not supposed to be happening and and cut and cuts it yeah
right you claim this is where things get interesting as we were talking about
before this is the Anderson connection panel these all hook into these loads
which we'll get to in a minute and that's basically the output of the AC
source so that's where we plug power supplies into got it okay so after after
adapting it from that to normal plug right so our AC source is as clean or
dirty as we Speck it to be and this is
effectively your wall outlet at home but
you know with an adap well so the idea with this is to actually have a test
enclosure that we put down here and plug into this or we even make a back plane
that just slots in right cuz these are all very precisely put in place right so
we could easily have like a PCB with Anderson connectors the PCB Mount ones
not regular ones sure that we could just slide in and there's power these are all
your signal stuff that goes up to um this guy and this guy yeah and these are
all these and um these channels I
believe are temperature sensing channels that is a byproduct of this guy Okay
cool so this is basically the business end where we plug the victims in and the
idea is that by having an enclosure here we can control the environment that the
power supply is operating in so that we could run any number of different
permutations clean power dirty power
cold hot there's a more practical thing for an enclosure so when
power supplies blow up we don't yeah that too this this yeah what's this
point uh so it's a timing noise analyzer
the module has a whole bunch of slots that you can stick into it what these do
is Monitor all the signals right so if
you have 12 volts 5 Vols and 3.3 this is
monitoring it from a past fail event so we don't actually get data out of this
so you set limits and this will see if it breaks those limits got it well where
do we get data from then uh this guy okay oh and that's missing that's the
oscilloscope I see they allow a variety of third party oscilloscopes we haven't
decided on one yet but that's going to go there a four Channel oscilloscope and
that will give you pretty graphs and like actual things that people can
understand where this will give you the past fail data now here's something I
need to understand a little bit better if our were l oh wait no I get it oh my
God why do we need so many of them okay cool I spent the majority of time like
gaming the system to get us this the
idea of these is we have 400 WTS 400 wats 400 watts
400 wat 400 4 4 400 these are eight 400 WT loads and one dual 100
watt load so these Can it can do 200 Watts total but 100 on each channel the
idea is this is for your 5 volts and your 3.3 most power supplies are under
100 Watts on those rails there are a few that are above only older stuff the
newest stuff the 1600 watts can sometimes do 125 these loads can be
connected in parallel right so you can set all of these guys to 12 vs the
reason why I went with so many is something called slew rate so that's the
rate at which these loads can change their demand right okay so each one of
these loads can change the demand at 6 amps per microc so you take 6 amps you
multiply by 12 you get uh 60 72 so 72
watts each one of these can change their load at 72 watts per micros with all
eight of these loads we can change the the the rate of power draw at 760 watts
per microc okay the idea was to
electronically simulate 3090 kicking on
but then NVIDIA released 4090 and I was like I don't have enough space so the
future goal is just to have a test bench right next to it where you can just
literally hook the power supply instead of hooking into this hook it into an actual computer and simulate a real
world example well think about that won't be as repeatable though no but
think about it this way someone's complaining about a certain power supply blowing up under certain architecture
you can build that architecture get the power supply put the power supply down
and monitor the voltages as it's and then we could create a simulated load
based on what we monitored and find out if anything will blow up you hide a guy
to automate GPU testing just get him to get a script that cranks it to like 150%
and just sends it as we get more experience using this I'm assuming we're
going to come up with our own stuff cool and then what do these do so uh single
phase power meter Yeah so basically efficiency so if we want if we want to
test uh 80 whatever or maybe something more
meaningful like 90 plus yeah sure okay
so that that just monitors your power through and then this just looks like a
basic ass multimeter yeah digital multimeter so it's got It's got a um if
we have an oscilloscope do we need this there's a reason why we need it I've
forgotten it um I'm going to blame I'm going to blame food again you know what
I've forgotten our sponsor see Sonic man
those guys never cease to amaze me great people great power supplies I mean
clearly because if they didn't have the confidence to know this thing is going to make them look good rather than bad
why would they have gotten involved in helping us Speck it this is like I said
very similar to the unit they have although ours is a little bit newer
unless they upgrade which means that if they're doing a great job of Designing
their power supplies there shouldn't be any surprises so go check them out at
the link down in the video description they've got long warranties great
efficiency just they're quiet what what else can you ask for if you guys think
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