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Power supply fan blade broke off.

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May 12, 2013 8:36:49 AM

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMPSU-650TX-650-Watt-Seri...
This is my power supply and one of the fan blades broke off when my pc fell on its side in an unfortunate accident. I took off the cover when removing the broken fanblade and I removed the warranty. Anyway could I fix it with a replacement fan or is balancing the fan to difficult? What can I do or what can happen if I just remove the fan from the psu? Maybe put a few extra fans inside of the pc?

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May 12, 2013 8:45:41 AM

I would just buy a replacement fan. You might have some issues getting it powered. If you have to you can always cut the connecter off the current fan and wire splice in the new one. I wouldn't remove it and run it with no fans. Bad idea. Should be safe to use with the broken blade. But it should wear out faster due to the unbalance nature it now has.
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May 12, 2013 5:25:49 PM

Balancing a small fan is difficult. Replace it. Don't run it in its current condition.
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May 12, 2013 9:08:53 PM

I could throw a PSU almost 20 yards on to a concrete sidewalk and the PSU would still work and have no broken blades.
RMA that PSU and get a replacement or refund.

Just tell Corsair that the fan should not have broken in the first place even if it had been dropped from an airplane at 3,000 feet, so although you voided the warranty, the fan blade should not have broken under any circumstance unless you stuck a pen or ruler into the fan while it was in operation and forced the blades to stop. Such action would show on the blade, though with indentations on the edges of the blade.

The warranty is there to stop users from touching the condensers inside the PSU as it may hold residual electricity and might cause a shock, burn or heart failure (for people with a heart condition), and not altogether about anything else, but the manufacturer might be sued by not providing some sort of warning.
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May 18, 2013 8:42:25 AM

4745454b said:
I would just buy a replacement fan. You might have some issues getting it powered. If you have to you can always cut the connecter off the current fan and wire splice in the new one. I wouldn't remove it and run it with no fans. Bad idea. Should be safe to use with the broken blade. But it should wear out faster due to the unbalance nature it now has.


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LE: I wouldn't consider running with the broken blade. It will be noisy and it will wear out very fast. If it's symmetrical, you can try to break the opposed blade to re-balance it. If not, you can try to break two blades, at 120 degrees, but you would have too few blades to actually cool the PSU components. So yeah, replace the fan, any case fan of same size should do it.
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