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Ripple Measurements

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The following table includes the ripple levels we measured on the EDT1250EWT's rails. The limits, according to the ATX specification, are 120mV (+12V) and 50mV (5V, 3.3V, and 5VSB).

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Test	12V	5V	3.3V	5VSB	Pass/Fail
10% Load	15.1mV	7.9mV	5.9mV	5.7mV	Pass
20% Load	23.3mV	8.3mV	6.3mV	7.1mV	Pass
30% Load	31.5mV	9.5mV	7.0mV	9.1mV	Pass
40% Load	35.6mV	10.5mV	7.4mV	10.8mV	Pass
50% Load	41.0mV	11.4mV	8.3mV	12.6mV	Pass
60% Load	32.3mV	12.4mV	9.3mV	13.8mV	Pass
70% Load	33.5mV	13.6mV	10.3mV	15.7mV	Pass
80% Load	29.5mV	15.1mV	10.8mV	16.0mV	Pass
90% Load	27.9mV	14.6mV	11.3mV	17.0mV	Pass
100% Load	30.3mV	17.5mV	14.7mV	21.4mV	Pass
110% Load	32.0mV	16.7mV	12.4mV	20.9mV	Pass
Cross-Load 1	14.4mV	13.2mV	9.0mV	4.9mV	Pass
Cross-Load 2	29.1mV	13.7mV	12.0mV	22.1mV	Pass

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From 30% up to 50% load, we notice an increase in the +12V rail's ripple. But because ripple stays low in all cases, this strange behavior is nothing to worry about. In general, ripple suppression is pretty good; it's just not as good as in Super Flower's or Seasonic's top implementations. Enermax doesn't use in-cable caps like Super Flower does, and we don't see a reason to add them since our measurements are good enough.

Ripple Oscilloscope Screenshots

The following oscilloscope screenshots illustrate the AC ripple and noise registered on the main rails (+12V, 5V, 3.3V and 5VSB). The bigger the fluctuations on the screen, the bigger the ripple/noise. We set 0.01 V/Div (each vertical division/box equals 0.01V) as the standard for all measurements.