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Alim flashed, search for a replacement alim in France

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:48 pm
by cujul
Hello,

I'm french and I flashed my alim (here it's 220v but the alim was set on 110v when I connected the cable).
It's a Viotek VTK450R 450W, I found it on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068J ... YXEL822RF0

But, I would like a cheaper alternativ, in amazon.fr for example, because I'm french and I will need the alim + the USA->FR adapter.

So, any idea? What alim to choose?

Re: Alim flashed, search for a replacement alim in France

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:36 am
by johnoly99
Hey there, John here from seeme. Any 12 volt power supply over 350 watts should work just fine. Im sure you can find one locally for cheap, check a computer store, they might even have used ones they removed from old pcs.

Re: Alim flashed, search for a replacement alim in France

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:47 pm
by TKL
Congratulation, you are not the only one doing that :(. I think they at least should put a big red WARNING! paper sign in the kit too tell people they have to manually set it to 230VAC. I thought the PSU would take anything from 115 to 230V without changing anything - most PSU's do that. If you know someone qualified to fix it, it can be done easily. There is a fuse inside but it is soldered into the board. I just cut the lead wires to the fuse and soldered a new one to the leads. The fuse is 5AF. That way I did not have to remove the board from the case.

But again, this should only be done by someone who know what he is dealing with!