Rigging a PC power supply

[Joe Johnson]

Another thing to keep in mind when you eventually get tired of that big honking connector with just 2 shorted wires is that if you cut it off and just connect the green wire to a black one (perhaps even inside the power supply housing to keep it clean), often the supplies won't work. I found out the hard way that on some supplies you have to see which wires are joined at the connector and reconnect those wires as well.

For a PowerUp! 6100D model (cheap with loads of current capability), there are 2 orange wires and 2 black wires joined at the connector -- the power supply just will not work with out both those pairs wires joined (in addition to the grounding the green wire trick).

Good luck.

Joe J.