Hardware Review: Ultra 20/24 Pin Power Supply Tester
When you pay $14 for something you should expect to get exactly what you paid for. A $14 Turd in a Box. I had high hopes and low expectations for this Power Supply Tester. I've been waiting to give out this award ever since I made it up 5 minutes ago. The Infamous Turd in a Box Award. This prestigious reward only goes to products whose designers seemed committed to poor product quality assurance (including hazards).
The first thing you notice is that the unit is very small (which is good). It has connections for almost any power supply voltage you could ever need (more than I had). The ports are easy to understand the LEDs were very responsive. Ok, this is where I put an end to the pillow talk and tell you how it sucks worse than blogs with higher traffic than mine.
The unit is very flimsy. The plastic used to create the shell/casing of the innards is extremely thin and prone to flexing unintentionally. While trying to simply plug a PSU cable into the unit it would flex and all LEDs would turn on. If you don't notice that your slight grip on the unit to stabilize it while plugging in was lighting up the LEDs for a false positive then you would assume you have a perfectly good power supply. This completely defeats the point of a power supply testing unit.
Also after extensive testing I never could get my 5v line to light up. I tried several power supplies that were tested good (within a machine) and the unit actually FAILED them!!! Avoid this unit like the plague.
When you pay $14 for something you should expect to get exactly what you paid for. A $14 Turd in a Box. I had high hopes and low expectations for this Power Supply Tester. I've been waiting to give out this award ever since I made it up 5 minutes ago. The Infamous Turd in a Box Award. This prestigious reward only goes to products whose designers seemed committed to poor product quality assurance (including hazards).
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The unit is very flimsy. The plastic used to create the shell/casing of the innards is extremely thin and prone to flexing unintentionally. While trying to simply plug a PSU cable into the unit it would flex and all LEDs would turn on. If you don't notice that your slight grip on the unit to stabilize it while plugging in was lighting up the LEDs for a false positive then you would assume you have a perfectly good power supply. This completely defeats the point of a power supply testing unit.
Also after extensive testing I never could get my 5v line to light up. I tried several power supplies that were tested good (within a machine) and the unit actually FAILED them!!! Avoid this unit like the plague.
