Hi everyone,
On the last year, i’ve been becoming more and more interested on learning how to make and understand electronic circuits, but for now i am still in very basic learning, so after seeing some posts from this fórum i decided i had to register on it, as it has soo much to offer and maybe i can also help others allong my own learning path, after all it’s learning and helping others to learn that we all learn better right?
So in this first post, i will tell you the tools i have, the tools i’m thinking buying, and the problem i have in hands more recently!
I Have the regular electronic enthusiastic equipment, two soldering irons one with a bigger tip and one with a smaller tip, the solder paste, solder pump, very basic soldering base to hold small circuits on which i work on, a DMM and a good counter with light to work on!
I’m thinking latelly on obtaining a solder station with hot air and soldering iron, i’ve been seeing some on ebay from the uk or even some chinese ones. But not sure about the quality of them, so that’s still a thought for now, maybe you can give some advices about some good and cheap stations that i will be able to order to Portugal, if you do, that’s one more thing i will thank you really very much, because as i told you before, i’m just starting on this, and i’m affraid from making error buying some piece of equipment that don’t serves me well.
Now, here it goes the problem on which i’m asking for your help!
About na year ago, i made a carpc for my car, and i was able to successfully put and mount everything together, it hás been working flawlessly for about this last year that passed, but some time ago started giving me some problems, and yesterday the psu stopped working.
My carpc is composed by a D945GCLF2 motherboard, 2gb of ram, a 160gb hard drive, several usb devices as gps, rádio, bluetooth, wireless usb card, wireless keyboard, obd2 device connected to the car, reslers device to use the steering wheel buttons on the carpc, and two extensions of usb ports that i put on the car’s front center console.
Powering all this was a M2 ATX chinese clone with 150w of power psu.. it never gave me any king of problems untill now!
What i did untill now, tested the motherboard, it’s working as all of the connected devices, so the problem should be the one and only PSU, tried the psu on the counter, with the green and black wires connected, and as i thought it hás no output power, but the input it’s there, i tried to locate the inline fuse, since this m2atx clone doesn’t have a mini blade fuse as the original one, but that didn’t served me for anything except to blown up without wanting so a component on which a wire touched :/
I’m hoping maybe i can substitute that component with your help on identifying what i should puto n it’s place, and after that, to locate the source of the original non-working problem!
Before anything else, i want to thank really a lot to anyone who reads all of this, and tries to help me, and sorry for the mistakes on english, but i’m portuguese, and i don’t practice my english as much as i would like to.
Well, here it goes some photos of the psu board, first one of the entire board, and next the board on 3 photos to see better on detail, any more photo of some particular área please tell me, and i will post it asap!
Regards, and once again thanks for everything!!
On the last year, i’ve been becoming more and more interested on learning how to make and understand electronic circuits, but for now i am still in very basic learning, so after seeing some posts from this fórum i decided i had to register on it, as it has soo much to offer and maybe i can also help others allong my own learning path, after all it’s learning and helping others to learn that we all learn better right?
So in this first post, i will tell you the tools i have, the tools i’m thinking buying, and the problem i have in hands more recently!
I Have the regular electronic enthusiastic equipment, two soldering irons one with a bigger tip and one with a smaller tip, the solder paste, solder pump, very basic soldering base to hold small circuits on which i work on, a DMM and a good counter with light to work on!
I’m thinking latelly on obtaining a solder station with hot air and soldering iron, i’ve been seeing some on ebay from the uk or even some chinese ones. But not sure about the quality of them, so that’s still a thought for now, maybe you can give some advices about some good and cheap stations that i will be able to order to Portugal, if you do, that’s one more thing i will thank you really very much, because as i told you before, i’m just starting on this, and i’m affraid from making error buying some piece of equipment that don’t serves me well.
Now, here it goes the problem on which i’m asking for your help!
About na year ago, i made a carpc for my car, and i was able to successfully put and mount everything together, it hás been working flawlessly for about this last year that passed, but some time ago started giving me some problems, and yesterday the psu stopped working.
My carpc is composed by a D945GCLF2 motherboard, 2gb of ram, a 160gb hard drive, several usb devices as gps, rádio, bluetooth, wireless usb card, wireless keyboard, obd2 device connected to the car, reslers device to use the steering wheel buttons on the carpc, and two extensions of usb ports that i put on the car’s front center console.
Powering all this was a M2 ATX chinese clone with 150w of power psu.. it never gave me any king of problems untill now!
What i did untill now, tested the motherboard, it’s working as all of the connected devices, so the problem should be the one and only PSU, tried the psu on the counter, with the green and black wires connected, and as i thought it hás no output power, but the input it’s there, i tried to locate the inline fuse, since this m2atx clone doesn’t have a mini blade fuse as the original one, but that didn’t served me for anything except to blown up without wanting so a component on which a wire touched :/
I’m hoping maybe i can substitute that component with your help on identifying what i should puto n it’s place, and after that, to locate the source of the original non-working problem!
Before anything else, i want to thank really a lot to anyone who reads all of this, and tries to help me, and sorry for the mistakes on english, but i’m portuguese, and i don’t practice my english as much as i would like to.
Well, here it goes some photos of the psu board, first one of the entire board, and next the board on 3 photos to see better on detail, any more photo of some particular área please tell me, and i will post it asap!
Regards, and once again thanks for everything!!
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