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I swore the $35 PSU tester was a waste, then a shop in Reno showed me why I was wrong
I always just used the paperclip trick to jump a PSU and called it good, saved the $35 on a tester for like three years. Then last month I had this Dell tower that would power on for two seconds and shut off, swapped the PSU with a known good one and it did the same thing, so I figured it was the board. The guy at the repair shop in Reno plugged in his tester and showed me my "known good" PSU was putting out 11.2v on the 12v rail under load, which I never would have caught with a multimeter because it looked fine at idle. Cost me 45 minutes of swapping parts and a board I didn't need to order, plus the customer had to reschedule. I bought the tester that afternoon and I've already caught two more weak rails on machines that seemed fine otherwise. Anyone else skip a cheap tool for years and then eat a way bigger cost because of it?
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