Oh it's not new people. It's
wrong people I take issue with. I don't care how long they've been part of the forum.
I correct other seniors as well as mods exactly the same way I correct people who have been registered for a week.
I disagree on crap and failure, that's exactly what Raidmax PSUs are and bring, it's technically correct information
Woefully inaccurate? I could say "incorrect" I suppose, or just stick with "inaccurate", but there are times when a single, PG rated, word cannot convey the sheer amount of wrongitude involved.
I submit that using those terms did help someone: Me. Using them entertained me, and entertainment is the only reason I still show up here.
The drive to help people was burnt out long ago.
The drive to protect people from the convincing idiots of the world just gets me harassed for not being nice (this latest turn of this thread is hardly the first time I've taken fire for correcting the convincing misinformed. It's not even the first time with this individual I don't think).
The drive to help the forum as a whole died a lonely death some time ago as well.
I think an important note to make is exactly what was being attacked. There was only one post that attacked a person, and that wasn't from the long term members.
The long term members were attacking the incorrect information, not the person. As it should be.
The short version of how temperature effects a PSU is still fairly complicated. It even varies by PSU. It certainly varies by section of PSU.
Often times a PSU will how lower ripple at "high" (>40°c) temperatures than at room temps.
MOSFETs meanwhile gain RDS(on) as the temperature rises, meaning that they cause a slightly higher voltage drop and retain a little bit more of the energy passing through them, resulting in a slightly higher internal temperature and a slightly higher RDS(on).
PSUs are a bit of a difficult thing to get into linked specifics on. MOSFETs for example, are not the simple devices they may appear to be. Here's a bit of information on them, from Fairchild Semiconductor:
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/an/AN/AN-9010.pdf
That's a good example, it's not even everything you need to know about MOSFETs to really dig into PSU stuff. (It's also rather more on some parts of how they work than you need to know)
Then there are similar whitepapers on capacitors (all three types used in typical PSUs), transformers, SMPS design, etc.
Nobody is going to read that even if I link it though, it's a dense and largely indigestible brick of information that few people actually need to know.
I've tried it with and without links, it's extremely rare that I ever get positive feedback from technical links. The person being corrected certainly isn't going to read something proving them wrong, not in the sort of situation you find this thread. Even if they do, they won't admit it, and sure as hell won't say so.
The other people are almost certainly going to click it, read the first paragraph, say "bloody hell, this is EE stuff" and close it. They too will fail to say "Hey thanks for the informative link". Few want to do research for themselves, that's why they're asking questions on a forum rather than spending six months studying SMPS design.
I could link to my personal PSU reviews or to other PSU reviews, but two of the three main sites I would link are already represented by their PSU reviewers in this thread! Beyond that, I'd just be linking to someone else saying something.
I could link Wikipedia, but again that's some random person saying something, not fact.
To actually link a fact you're pretty much stuck linking to science, and in SMPS stuff that science is usually at the level of that MOSFET thing I linked above or higher. Sometimes far higher.
Generally over my head too.
