Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “We bought a CRAZY PSU Tester!”.
Uh we shot a video this week. Oh man, i am excited for you guys to see this thing. Have you seen the psu tester we bought? I have heard that it was purchased. I have not seen it it’s here. It arrived on. I think it was tuesday or wednesday and we did our unboxing video, which is an uncrating, because it’s taller than you are it’s an entire 4du cabinet, uh-huh uh-huh, full of ac load generation, dc, load generation, oscilloscopes um uh loads themselves. So you need like the you, need the power supply and then you also need the loads uh logging uh, like monitoring and logging hardware.
It’S it’s it’s packed. It is stuffed to the gills. It’S apparently a better one than c sonic has yeah and they’re an actual sonic power suppliers.
Manufacturer yeah, like a lot of your favorite power supplies, are probably once you go down to it see. Sonic xper asks bigger than the one gamers nexus got yeah. Definitely it’s big. We go bigger, we go home, it’s good. We had the land when we did, because you guys are going to fill that space up pretty quick, pretty quickly, considering the anechoic chamber was just like leaning against the wall. The whole time i had to point that out to a couple people, because i guess when it’s deconstructed people don’t necessarily recognize what it is um but yeah that was uh.
That was pretty. That was pretty crazy. Here i can i’ll show you uh i’ll, show you the company that we got it from.
There has been a lot of mentions about getting electro boom to come check out the uh space. Once it’s set up yeah, i mean sure i’m down for whatever so yeah. It’S basically like one of these, so they’re highly configurable, kyle, actually uh, went through a whole did a whole bunch of research working with uh csonic, and i believe you know i’m not sure who else he talked to. So i’m not going to name anyone else, but working with seasonic, as well as engineers from chroma to ensure that we have exactly what we need for the ultimate, the ultimate configuration for testing pc power supplies because they make gear for testing all kinds of stuff batteries. Any kind of power system and the only piece that we don’t have yet the only piece that was not included in our 133 000 us dollars was an oscilloscope. So once we get the scope in the front of it, it’s that price tag goes. It goes up. A little bit, it goes up a little bit. Oh boy, no we’re not going to be blowing any breakers, the plug on it’s like this big. It’S got its own special plug. There’S a lot of power in that building. Yeah. Oh there’s tons of power in that building i mean we ran like a 200 plus person land in there, no problem, whatever you know, no problem yeah. Well, that’s crazy! Yeah! I can’t wait.
Man we’re gon na be able to turn through, like the capability. The capabilities of this thing are so cool the ac, the ac power source, for example. You can get it to run automated scenarios for things like okay, uh. What’S it like, if you’re on you know a really crappy app setup and someone like flicks on a blender somewhere else in the house, so you can find out.
You know hey if i, if i live some, if i you know in a developing country and my power is really inconsistent and there’s brown frequent brown notes yeah, so you can. You can create all these test scenarios where it’ll it’ll simulate a brown out here and then another brown out there and then uh. You know uh uh a really a really um. I’M trying to remember what the problem is.
Certain types of motors, though, when they spin up, they can cause problems for other devices that are on the same circuit, so you can have those spin up um the dc. Oh man, this is super cool, so the we have a. We have like a dc uh power source, and the reason for that is that it allows us to fake our power supply accidentally over supply like over volting. So we can, we can take whatever our power supply is outputting and we can actually add a little bit to make sure that over voltage protection works, for example, so we’re going to be able to test uh safety mechanisms and power supplies if there’s anything, that’s not Safe, we can hook it up run through our automated test.
Suite and it’ll tell us that we’re going to build a chamber for it that will be both uh acoustically, isolated and thermally isolated, so we’ll be able to tell you, okay under different load scenarios. How loud is it going to get how hot is it going to how how efficient is it going to be if it’s in a particularly hot environment as the world heats up, i guess that could become more and more of a concern for people and uh. This one’s really cool we have, i think it was it’s either six or seven of the 400 watt loads and the reason that we got so many was actually not because we needed that much sustained load, but because of the their like transient performance. So by having that many in parallel, we are able to simulate the effect of like an rtx 3090 having a momentary power draw spike. Yeah now nvidia might have kind of kind of screwed us here with some even higher power draw gpus coming, oh yeah uh, but i mean we won’t know that for sure until it actually happens, so we might actually have to get more of those modules. There’S a compound for that .