Laptop Power Supply Bad On Carpet

Your build doesn t have to be fully completed in order for you to be able to safely turn it on to test it.

Laptop power supply bad on carpet.

But my floor is berber sp carpet and despite. It s generally not a good idea to put a pc tower directly on carpet for three reasons. 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. It is normal for a power supply to become hot.

I had planned to place my pc on the floor under my desk. Carpet generates a lot of static from people walking on it. The life of aluminum electrolytic capacitors goes down by a factor of 2 for every 10 additional degrees centigrade approx 18 deg f. 2 have it plugged in without a top quality battery backup.

I was wondering if i should get a cheap peace of plywood and put it on that or if it didn t really matter. Keep your power supply psu plugged in but turned off. And heat kills electronics. Doing this will keep it completely grounded until you re ready to actually turn it on.

The power supply is a corsair 550w unit and the fan points faces down. I had an hp power supply that did the same thing. The case has a grill under where the power supply is placed. Second your laptop has fans that turns on and keep your cpu cool you.

The worst thing you can do to a computer or laptop. From what i ve seen my pc should be on a piece of wood. 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. Thanks for all your opinions in this thread.

Merely putting them on a carpet is enough to impede the airflow as there is no longer an empty airspace underneath. I m putting together a bottom mounted power supply pc. If the electrical path hits the wrong thing you can fry a part or even the entire motherboard.