Laptop Power Supply Bad On Carpet

The power supply is a corsair 550w unit and the fan points faces down.

Laptop power supply bad on carpet.

I had an hp power supply that did the same thing. Carpet generates a lot of static from people walking on it. I was wondering if i should get a cheap peace of plywood and put it on that or if it didn t really matter. From what i ve seen my pc should be on a piece of wood.

The reason it s a bad thing is that laptops oftentimes vent air through the bottom and carpets and beds too with just about every other soft object can block the airflow causing the laptop to. Keep your power supply psu plugged in but turned off. The worst thing you can do to a computer or laptop. Your build doesn t have to be fully completed in order for you to be able to safely turn it on to test it.

Merely putting them on a carpet is enough to impede the airflow as there is no longer an empty airspace underneath. Doing this will keep it completely grounded until you re ready to actually turn it on. But my floor is berber sp carpet and despite. 2 have it plugged in without a top quality battery backup.

However if the power supply is getting to the point where it is almost too hot to handle it is most likely shorting or malfunctioning. The case has a grill under where the power supply is placed. The life of aluminum electrolytic capacitors goes down by a factor of 2 for every 10 additional degrees centigrade approx 18 deg f. If the electrical path hits the wrong thing you can fry a part or even the entire motherboard.

I m putting together a bottom mounted power supply pc. It s generally not a good idea to put a pc tower directly on carpet for three reasons. That static eventually dissipates but you don t want it zapping through a computer case. Second your laptop has fans that turns on and keep your cpu cool you.

Thanks for all your opinions in this thread. 1 have it plugged into street power without any power conditioning or suppression. And heat kills electronics.