On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:34:48 +0100, Peter Johnson wrote:

| On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:37:39 -0400, Paul
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| If the PG line, pin 8 was blinking or dim, that would be ample reason
| to change out the PSU for a new one, I believe you are doing the right
| thing.
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| +1
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| I don't know about the current state of things but it used to be that
| because a psu tested ok didn't mean that it was ok. I once paid a
| computer shop £5 to test a psu that had been in a problematic system.
| It was OK said the shop owner. So I sold it on eBay, fortunately to
| someone who lived not far away, who put it in his system and found
| that it wouldn't power up. (Over a few months I had changed everything
| in that system to try and fix random restarts. The psu was the last
| item. It hadn't been a cheap one, either.)

If power output level is dropping randomly as happened with my problem PSU, it is
possible one could test OK on a check and then fail in a later check or application.
I hate that. If a PSU is going, I prefer absolute failure. Then there's no doubt.

Larc