PSU Disassembly

[JoePro87]

I have a junky ass Apevia PSU that I never should have bought. Forgot to return it in time, and am now stuck with it. It's a total piece, but it has one really awesome thing that I want out of it....the PSU fan. It is a blue lighted fan, and I think it would look amazing in my computer. 

 

I digress. I have this power supply. I want the fan out of it. I know power supplies have capacitors in them capable of holding quite a lot of power, for a very long period of time. How could I safely remove the fan from it, without risk of zapping myself into oblivion? I want to add, I don't care what kind of condition the rest of the power supply ends up in, as it will just be recycled after I get the power supply out. Any advice, ideas?

[Benji_w]

You'll need to change the plug on the fan when you remove it, I've done it several times but it's not worth it tbh. You can get things to release the charge from the PSU etc but I've never had an issue because I'm not an idiot and didn't start licking the PCB etc...

[JoePro87]

2 minutes ago, Benji_w said:

You'll need to change the plug on the fan when you remove it, I've done it several times but it's not worth it tbh. You can get things to release the charge from the PSU etc but I've never had an issue because I'm not an idiot and didn't start licking the PCB etc...

Damn it, I so wanted to know what it tasted like!

 

I have to replace the plug? Aww. That's depressing.

[Spectrez]

just unplugging it from the wall and pressing and holding the power button should remove must of the juice from the capacitors.

 

but i personally wouldnt do it for a fan  you are better off selling it used and buying a new fan

[JoePro87]

Just now, Spectrez said:

just unplugging it from the wall and pressing and holding the power button should remove must of the juice from the capacitors.

 

but i personally wouldnt do it for a fan  you are better off selling it used and buying a new fan

I wouldn't give it away. The reason I'm not using it is because it fried my motherboard as soon as I had it in, and turned it on the first time. Yeah, I had to spend over $400 to fix everything it broke.

[Benji_w]

2 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Damn it, I so wanted to know what it tasted like!

 

I have to replace the plug? Aww. That's depressing.

the 3 PSUs I've taken apart came with fans with an earth and power wire with a small 2 pin fan plug.