I just wanted to give a heads up to anyone that purchases power supplies from MeanWell should always look inside them for issues. I recently purchased a 24 volt DC at 63 amps, Model RSP-1500-24 that I paid about $379 for. I wanted a high power, power supply to characterize 1200 watt or lower DC motors that are 24 volts.
Well, I always look inside things I buy to see if I am getting quality. So, inside the unit I found an 8-pin DIP style chip labeled as TOP244P switcher that was barely soldered into the board!!! I mean a damn snow sled could slide down the thing, it was sticking up so high on one side. On top of that, the solder joints looked like they did not reach proper temperature because they looked like dull colored boulders instead of the shiny mountain peak look of a good solder joint and I could see lots of surface mount devices having almost completed solder bridges.
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Another issue I have found that I will need to correct is that for some reason they figured that they could just run the 24 volt plus and minus copper buss bars very close to the aluminum frame inside the power supply enclosure with no insulation shielding. Short circuits anyone?
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It looks like one simply has to press down on top of the enclosure to make the buss bars short out against the aluminum frame!
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So it looks like I will be hand soldering all the cold joints I see, seating that 8 pin DIP chip, and buying some Kapton tape to put over the buss bars. Geez man.
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I did not even power this sucker up yet, and will not do so till I fix these issues. Hopefully the magic smoke will not be released once I do power it up. I'll let you guys know if it does!