USBpower 40W 5V 8A 5 Port F8J088

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Official specifications: I got it from ebay dealer gocisco

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Being from ebay I got it in a envelope.

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Measurements

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The ports looks the same and without individual overload protection.

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Running all ports together shows that there is a common overload protection at about 7.5A.

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The charger is rated for 8A, but with overload protection at 7.5A that is impossible. I did first test at 7A and the charger could only maintain output for about 10 minutes before it shut down.

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Reducing the load to 6A made it possible to run for 1 hour.
The temperature photos below are taken between 30 minutes and 60 minutes into the one hour test.

Temp2145

M1: 55,6°C, M2: 41,9°C, M3: 53,2°C, HS1: 79,4°C
HS1 is the transformer and the heat around it is from the heatsinks.

Temp2146

M1: 54,8°C, M2: 68,5°C, HS1: 69,6°C
HS1 and M2 is the end of the heatsinks.

Temp2147

M1: 69,5°C, M2: 70,9°C, M3: 49,2°C, HS1: 71,2°C

Temp2148

M1: 74,0°C, M2: 36,0°C, HS1: 85,3°C
HS1 is the from the the rectifier diode.

10ohm

There noise is acceptable with 12mV rms and 380mVpp.

5ohm

Increasing the current to 1A do increase the noise a bit 32mV rms and 450mVpp.

2ohm

At 2.5A the noise is at the same level 28mV rms and 450mVpp.

0.8ohm

And also at near maximum load: 33mV rms and 445mVpp.



Tear down

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Mounting the dark part in my vice and hitting the white part with a mallet did open it without any damage.

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On this side of the circuit board is mains input fuse and a bridge rectifier. The mains switcher transistor is moundted on a heatsink.
There is a opto coupler and a safety capacitor between the mains and the low volt side.
On the low volt side there is a rectifier diode with a large heatsink.
But there is no noise filtering neither on the mains input or on the usb outputs (No common mode coils or inductors).

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On the bottowm the mains switcher controller can be found (IC1). The usb ports has a couple of coding resistors.
The feedback circuit do not use a IC, but only a transistor (Q1).

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Somebody left a solder blob on the safety capacitor..

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When there is a air-gab the distance between mains and low volt side can be down to 4mm, here it is 2mm and a spark jumped accross it when I tested with 5000 volt. The two heatsinks are also too close.


The charger passed an isolation test with 2500 volt, but failed a 5000 volt test, this makes the charger acceptable for 120VAC usage, but doubtful for 230VAC usage.



Conclusion

At first glance this charger may look like many other 5 ports chargers, but this one is not nearly as good. Only fixed codings on the output, cannot deliver full current and worst of all it is not safe.



Notes

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