On 16 December 2013 @16:53 zulu, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2013, Darr247 wrote: > >> I see 2 components in ps4.jpg that look like they've ruptured. >> >> One in the mid/foreground with the yellow hot glue on it (the shorter > The one with the visible VENT and 105 printing? No. The short one (in 'front' of the electrolytic capacitor with the markings you mention) that appears to have an output choke (inductor), wound around the component and likely terminated to each lead. The other one is to the right of the pink resistor, yes... it *also* appears to have an output choke wound around it. Those are quite unusual, in my experience. I just took apart 3 dead power supplies here in the recycle bin and found swollen caps in all of them, but no chokes wound around components like that. Typically, inductor coils are wound around a piece of ferrous metal to intensify the flux, amplifying their filtering effect. On one hand you'd think it's a design flaw that extra chokes would need to be added like that to specific components; on the other hand it would point to extra engineering having been done to actually fix a specific problem instead of just pushing them out the door. Then again - as others have mentioned - maybe it's just clumps of dust... and I'm imagining things. :)