Power Surge?

[LordofSavages]

So I was playing some games on my PC and the power went out for a couple seconds, I managed to flip the switch on the PSU before it came back on but I couldn't unplug the cable. Is the unit still safe to use if it was plugged directly into the wall and not a surge protected outlet? (EVGA SuperNova P2 1000w)

[Lord Nicoll]

9 minutes ago, YaqinHasan said:

So I was playing some games on my PC and the power went out for a couple seconds, I managed to flip the switch on the PSU before it came back on but I couldn't unplug the cable. Is the unit still safe to use if it was plugged directly into the wall and not a surge protected outlet? (EVGA SuperNova P2 1000w)

Most good PSUs have the surge protection MOVs and X and Y class ceramic capacitors in them, while additional surge protection is nice, you did break the circuit with the switch, so only very very high voltages (the kind the main power lines are designed to quench, in the 11KV+ range) would have made it through, and no consumer level surge protector could handle that, there is enough to stop the super bad ones in your grid.

[Dujith]

The switch on the back of a PSU is an actual switch so you should be fine.

If this kinda things happens more often then u should get outlet that stays powered down after a outage.

[LordofSavages]

1 minute ago, Dujith said:

The switch on the back of a PSU is an actual switch so you should be fine.

If this kinda things happens more often then u should get outlet that stays powered down after a outage.

You mean a UPS? Yeah I wouldn't say it happens too often to warrant such an investment. It happens once or twice a year tops.

[LordofSavages]

3 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Most good PSUs have the surge protection MOVs and X and Y class ceramic capacitors in them, while additional surge protection is nice, you did break the circuit with the switch, so only very very high voltages (the kind the main power lines are designed to quench, in the 11KV+ range) would have made it through, and no consumer level surge protector could handle that, there is enough to stop the super bad ones in your grid.

Considering nothing else in the house broke (surge protected extensions and such), I'd say it was a mild surge. The SuperNova P2 1000w is probably decent, so I think it should have the things you're talking about.