Akasa Essential Power 350 W Power Supply Review

Power Distribution

In Figure 14, you can see the power supply label containing all the power specs.

Figure 14: Power supply label.

As you can see, according to the label this unit has two +12 V rails. This information, however, isn’t true. Unfortunately lots of manufacturers print fake information on the product labels. Inside the unit all +12 V wires are connected to exactly the same place on the printed circuit board. There are no shunts (current sensors) and no over current protection (OCP) circuit inside this power supply, therefore making it impossible for this unit to have more than one rail. Click here to understand more about this subject.

Now let’s see if this power supply can really deliver 350 W.