How-to Test Your Corsair Power Supply
Par. Carlos Pascual Posté May 10th 2011
Testing our power supply without the use of your motherboard is generally pretty simple. Below we will show you how to test all our PSU's.
To start off you will need the following:
- Corsair power supply
- Power cord
- ATX 20-24 pin PSU connector and 4 Pin Peripheral Connector
- Paperclip
- One or more case fans
- 2/3 pin case fan connector to Molex adapter if needed
Step 1: ( Step for AX/HX series only)
Connect both the 20-24 pin (AX Series) and the 4-pin Molex (AX/HX series) connector to the PSU. Make sure to use the cables provided with power supply. Note that on many of our PSUs, these cables are permanently connected.
Step 2:
Attach the case fan to the Molex connector. If you're case fan only has a 2/3 pin connector, use a 2/3 pin case fan connector to Molex adapter. The PSU does have a built in fan, but depending on the series, it might not spin without a certain amount of load or reaches a certain temperature. See picture below
Step 3:
Bend the Paper clip into a u-shape.
Step 4:
Use the paper clip to connect it to the 20/24 pin connecter. Usually the wires are color coded (one green wire and mutiplie black wires), but with our AX version they are all black. To bridge the correct pins face the cable the exact same way shown in the picture below. Locate the pin which is indicated in Green (your green wire) and yellow (your black wire) on the picture below and bridge the two using the paperclip. One way to help make sure you have the correct pins, locate the missing pin on the 20/24 connector (boxed in blue) as it should be on the same row with the bridged pins (all our PSU series have a missing pin).
Final Step:
Make sure the switch on the back of the PSU is set to ( O ) before plugging each side of the power cable to the power supply and the wall outlet. Once the power cord is plugged into both the wall and power supply, make sure to check if all connections are good. Once complete, turn the switch on the back of the power supply to ( I ) and see if the case fan spins. If so you have a functioning PSU!
Nunkoo Bilal
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Cristian Jiménez
posted on May 10th 2011You should include with every new corsair an special connector for the 24-pin that do the work of the paperclic, easy to use for the customer... this paperclick procedural is highly dangerous for us. This connector maybe called PSU Tester like this: http://www3.buyincoins.com/pc-20-24-pin-psu-atx-sata-hd-power-supply-tester-blue-product-677.html Now the question is: Can I use the PSU Tester in the URL above to test my new Corsair PSU?? Thanks.
Juan Pérez
posted on May 10th 2011Hi I have a power supply Corsair TX 750W. Buy a mini tester to test before connecting another motherboard because it had burned down and not know why. but to try all the lights turn on unless (-5V). this is normal?. because in the specifications of the power supply in current outputs are only (+ 3.3V) (+5 v) (+12 v) (-12v) (+5 VSB).
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