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Default Recommendations for Failed Samsung Power Supply?

On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 4:00:40 PM UTC-4, c4urs11 wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:24:19 -0700, wrote:

Raise the capacitance to the maximum that will fit in the space available


Some caution though: raising capacitance also
raises peak current through rectifiers.
Rectifiers do have peak current limits.

Cheers!


Hence the "Up to double the OEM limits".

Generally, and unless the OEM is _REALLY_ cheap, the rectifiers are not the limiting factor.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA