What happens when you add high BTU electronic components with cramped IC design? You get a dead power supply. No, this is a not a duplicate post but it is essentially the same problem as my other post about a ReadyNAS 1100.
This is what happened to my ReadyNAS NV a couple of weeks ago when I had to have some electrical work done I had to have the power shut off for an extended time so I had to power the unit down. When it was okay to power things back up this device would not power back on.
So based on the response I was getting when I hit the power button I suspected that the power supply had failed since I have had this unit do this before. I opened up the case and took a look at the PSU and I could only see oneย swollen capacitor so yes, more than likely the PSU had failed. In either case, a swollen capacitor or capacitors are ticking time bombs with electronics.
Rather than purchase an overpriced OEM replacement I purchased an ATX power supply with nearly the same specifications. No, I’m not getting any money from linking the power supply but in the event anyone wanted to know what I used, there it is. I had read in some ReadyNAS forum posts on how to convert the ATX power supply to the same pin out that ReadyNAS used and ย things looked good. To do swap the pins I used another reference on how to make a pin puller using paperclips. These were the same paper clips I used prior but I had to flatten them out a little more for this unit.
After swapping around the pins to match the ReadyNAS specifications I was able to power up the NAS.
Additionally because the new ATX power supply had a fan in it I had to use my hole saw to cut a hole in the back of the bottom of the NAS chassis which holds the PSU so the fan could exhaust air out the back. I figured this was a little better “design” than before as the OEM unit did not have a fan in the PSU. Keeping the fan also forced me to keep the new PSU’s top cover which did not have clips for the air shield to mount on so I had to use some silicon that had the ability to handle high temperatures.
The following video shows the process I used. Hopefully if someone is in the same boat as I was this video will help out.
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caseen 250W Enhance ENP-7025B Power Supply 80 PLUS Bronze Certified
