Power Supply Triage
Power supply sorting is done in System Evaluation.
Sort
Create a temporary place for two piles:
- Keep
- Recycle
Follow the triage flow chart below to determine which pile to put the power supply in. You will need to test some power supplies to do this.
Chart
Test
- Get the ATX power supply tester from a Build Coordinator (Dave or Martin), or ask any staff member. You can also check and see if the store has one. If you can't find a tester...move on to a different project, one will turn up eventually.
- For each power supply that needs to be tested, do these things:
- Plus each power supply into outlet
- Connect the tester to the ATX connector
- Check lights (solid lights are good)
- Put failures in Recycle pile (as directed in the Triage chart)
- When finished, give the power supply tester back to Build Coordinator
What to do when done, where to put them
- Power supplies in your Recycle pile go straight to Recycling after they are signed off by the Eval instructor.
- Keepers
- Mark them OKFG with a sharpie
- Take them to the warehouse and put them in the POWER SUPPLIES TO KEEP location
- Recycle
- Take them to the warehouse and put them in the POWER SUPPLIES TO RECYCLE location