[Señor_Striatum]

Been reading up on power supplies to fix one and came across this at the following link:
http://www.ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=Power_Supply

"The earliest batch of PS3 had the ZSSR5391A power supply, which as you can see in the above table draws a lot of amps from your power outlet. You can replace it with newer compatible power supply models that draw less power, and also produce less heat. The second criteria is to try to find the lowest input amp and lowest output amp that works with your PS3 model (for APS models, this means the higher the model number, the better"

In the graph it shows that various power supplies from models CECH-(A,B,E & G) can all be substituted... Then the following disclaimer:

note: there is strong criticism to above statement, see http://www.ps3devwiki.com/index.php?...k:Power_Supply

"The above is wrong in stating that:
The output rating is a measurement for how much power the PSU itself uses (e.g. its efficiency)
That it is better to get a PSU that has a lower rating which has littler headroom"

So is it NOT a good idea to swap power supplies between models that have the same number of pins on the connector cable? Thanks

[KillerBug]

Originally Posted by Señor_Striatum So is it NOT a good idea to swap power supplies between models that have the same number of pins on the connector cable? Thanks

If you know the pinouts and you swap a PSU with enough watts, then it isn't a big deal...you can even swap power supplies with different pin counts if you make an adapter cable. But if you put the PSU from a 160GB model fat into a 60GB model fat, you are going to kill that power supply.

The funny thing is that the external power supply for my laptop makes more amps at 18V than the most powerful PS3 power supply does at 12V...without the need for a fan, and without getting as warm as a fan-cooled PS3 power supply. Heck, it is even water resistant.

Someone should just make a universal replacement PSU for the fat models...they could cut the size in half and still have plugs for all the different pin output configurations and more wattage output than any system needs.