Super Flower Golden King 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.
In the transient filtering stage, this power supply has two X capacitors more than the minimum required (plus two additional Y capacitors and one additional X capacitor after the rectifying bridge), but it doesn’t have an MOV, which is the component in charge of removing spikes coming from the power grid.
Figure 9: Transient filtering stage
On the next page, we will have a more detailed discussion about the components used in the Super Flower Golden King 650 W.