Power Supply Tester 2.0 20/24

by Ultra

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches ; 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EF1JGA
• Item model number: ULT31553
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,818 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Power Supply Tester 2.0 20/24

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It only tells if your power supply is dead, June 19, 2009

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bdn (Huntington Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Power Supply Tester 2.0 20/24 (Personal Computers)

My PS failed to power up the PC. It turned out that the 12+V line is 10.99V which is below the min spec of 11.4V. A new PS did the trick. However, when I tested the damaged PS with this device, all LEDs show green. This device will be good if the PS is dead; it can tell you that. Otherwise, it will give you a wrong assumption (some previous users made comments on this but I failed to pay attention to. This review is to re-emphasize this fact). A good old multimeter is the way to go.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT FOR TECH USE: Does not diagnose correctly. Warning., January 23, 2010

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Stan Horstman "Stan Horstman N.CA" (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Supply Tester 2.0 20/24 (Personal Computers)

This will NOT tell you if your power supply is good or bad. I test power supplies often and this will test a power supply showing good BUT when you put that power supply to a motherboard and try to power it on NOTHING. Hook another power supply to the machine and the computer works. You could have just made the wrong diagnosis if relying upon this item.

This is a pretty toy but not a tool. You may wrongly diagnose a motherboard as being bad because of this. Maybe it has something to do with a motherboard putting more of a load on a power supply than the LED's in this tester.

Mark my words- don't rely on this for real testing. You will keep bad power supplies (unless all you were going to power were LED's) and throw away good motherboards. Can we put a load on this? I really do need a good tester. Anybody??

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Usefull little tool, August 10, 2006

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Burton Lape (Magna, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Supply Tester 2.0 20/24 (Personal Computers)

This is great for the price.

I was quickly able to diagnose whether my powersupply had died on me or if it was yet another system board issue.
I first tried it on a known good power supply just so I could see the results of what happens with a good power supply.
Then hooked it up to the one I felt was dead and yup only got one light to sorta flash a little bit and was able to replace just the part that had gone out and get my system back up and running.

I would Highly recommend this tool to any to help diagnose dead power supplies, at the price its at.

Now if your system turns on and has power supply issues then I would just use a multimeter however when you feel your system board has fried and you need a load to turn the power supply on, this is a great tool for doing just that.