Seasonic X-Series 650 W Power Supply Review
Transient Filtering Stage
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As we have mentioned in other articles and reviews, the first place we look when opening a power supply for a hint about its quality, is its filtering stage. The recommended components for this stage are two ferrite coils, two ceramic capacitors (Y capacitors, usually blue), one metalized polyester capacitor (X capacitor), and one MOV (Metal-Oxide Varistor). Very low-end power supplies use fewer components, usually removing the MOV and the first coil.
The AC power connector shown in Figure 7 is in fact a complete filtering circuit, and it has all the minimum required components. You can also see a presence of a relay, in charge of shutting down the power supply right on its input when certain protections kick in.
Figure 7: Transient filtering stage (part 1).
Figure 8: Transient filtering stage (part 2).
In the next page we will have a more detailed discussion about the components used in the Seasonic X-Series 650 W.