Pulled a loose lump of solder from my new Silverstone PSU

[DragoniaBlu]

Here's a pic


I pulled that lump of solder through the grill on my new Silverstone PSU. I was turning it over and heard a rattle and when I investigated it I saw this little silver thing poking out so I pulled it through.

I have no idea what would have happened if I had plugged it in and turned it on with that still rocking around inside it. WTF?!

[Bonebreaker777]

You lucky bugger! It's like you found the "toy" in your bowl of cereals but you are right, nothing good would've come out of you turning the PSU on while still having that conductive crumble still inside.

[GoNz0]

I would get it exchanged asap.

[KeyboardDemon]

I would get it exchanged asap.

Yeah, I would have to question the safety of a PSU that has lost solder inside it. Send it back ASAP.

[pastymuncher]

That's pretty poor. What model is it?

[Saracen]

Yeah, I would have to question the safety of a PSU that has lost solder inside it. Send it back ASAP.

As would I. You MIGHT get away with it floating inside for years, not touching the wrong places, then suddenly BANG!!!

What would worry me is if one bit of errant solder is floating about, why not two? Three?

And if a PSU goes bang that way, there's no predicting what else it'll take out. Maybe nothing, but maybe expensive graphics cards, CPUs, HD/SSD drives full of data, etc.

And if that happens months or years down the road, good luck proving it was an "inherent" PSU fault in the form of loose solder that did it, not loose solder the user carelessly dropped in it.

Nah, were it me, that PSU would be an immediate unqualified rejection, without hesitation.

[kompukare]

Yes, I would definitely sent it back. Not only is it a bad sign as to the quality of this particular unit or even the whole line, what if during manufacturing they tested it with a live load (as they should) and while that test didn't blow up anything by pure luck, it could still have shorted some other part and hence internally damaged some internal component which might now fail a lot sooner than it otherwise would.

Not all shorts need to cause a big bang and a cloud of smoke to do some actual damage.

[peterb]

The problem being proving to the supplier that the solder blob really did come from the PSU...