Why? What’s the benefit of adding weights? Surely smaller and lighter is better?
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 11 months ago
Isn’t this pretty common in a lot of consumer electronics? Pretty sure power banks and hard drives frequently have weights added to them
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 11 months ago
RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People think weight = quality.
Sometimes it can indicate something is better made, like something made with lots of plastic vs more metal. In a PSU you need lots of metal for the windings, cores, and power stabilization components. It should have some heft to it.
Unscrupulous manufacturers will sometimes throw chunks of metal into an item (like Beats headphones) that do nothing except make a thing weigh more to prey on the sense that weight means better quality.
scrooge@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Feels more premium
r00ty@kbin.life 11 months ago
In certain devices (batteries and power supplies) there's a minimum weight that can realistically store or convert a specified amount of energy or power.
So if you buy a 1000w PSU and it's too light, you're going to know it is fake. So they add the weight to make it feel right for the power rating. In this case this is a double-whammy of a failure waiting to happen. A PSU with a lower than advertised rating, coupled with a lack of safety circuitry means it's more likely to fail due to the overload applied, and when it fails it's more likely to go out in a big way.
HKayn@dormi.zone 11 months ago
I think they were asking about legitimate benefits of adding weights to consumer electronics.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I could see it making sense in a hard drive to dampen vibrations but that’s a stretch
voracitude@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There legitimately aren’t any, so no, I doubt they were asking that.
aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Only in cheap chinese shit. Don’t buy cheap chinese shit.