Hantol PSU Contains Fake PFC Coil Made of Cement

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:44 pm

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/blog/Han ... cement/220

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:50 pm

gotta love it!

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:17 am

LoL.. That's pretty messed up.. I bought a PSU from Newegg about a year ago that I could plug in, and the LED would light up, but no power to the board. Not really sure what is wrong with it, came that way out of the box. And I was just too lazy to send it back for a replacement. I looked it up at one time and it was a common problem. Next time I'm at my Dad's I'm going to dig it out and have him take a look at it and see if he can figure out what's wrong and fix it. lol

eGo

CaterpillarAssassin · Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:02 am

That is pretty ridiculous. Did they advertise active pfc?

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:34 pm

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:17 am

I've seen similar cases in car audio. Amplifiers with bottom plates that are 1/8" thick steel to emulate heavy components. Head units that are only wired mono on the inside despite stereo outputs.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:44 am

pretty amazing...the amount of effort they went through to fake that.