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Wrong Power Supply? (XBox 360)

Tucanwarrior13Tucanwarrior13 Registered User regular
edited May 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
My awesome girlfriend got me a 60GB XBox 360 for my birthday. It was used off of Ebay. We got it today and went to hook it up. When I tried to plug the power supply in it wouldn't fit. Upon further investigation the power supply is seperated by plastic in the middle, while the output was just a single piece of plastic. We contacted the seller about the issue. I was just wondering if their is a difference in XBoxes, and what it means for the xbox i have.

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  • John MatrixJohn Matrix Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Hmm, any chance of a picture? By plastic in the middle I assume you don't mean the large power supply unit between the outlet and the xbox?

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Tucanwarrior13 wrote: »
    I was just wondering if their is a difference in XBoxes

    Yes.

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  • Tucanwarrior13Tucanwarrior13 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    hmm, well that's good to know. I was just really confused as to why they would be different.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yeah my friend's 360 has a different power supply connection than my 360.

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  • Tucanwarrior13Tucanwarrior13 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Is it newer models that have different power supplies or different regions or something?

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Tucanwarrior13 wrote: »
    Is it newer models that have different power supplies or different regions or something?

    Each time the chipset was updated (Xenon>Falcon>Jasper), the power requirements changed, thus the need for a different power supply.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    check the serial number, you might have gotten a newer better model with an old cord (or an older model with a new cord)
    i lucked out, i just bought a used 360 and it's a jasper, the latest revision.

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Local H Jay wrote: »
    check the serial number, you might have gotten a newer better model with an old cord (or an older model with a new cord)
    i lucked out, i just bought a used 360 and it's a jasper, the latest revision.

    The link I posted has pictures of the connectors. He mentioned a piece of plastic in the middle so it's at least a Falcon. If it has another separator in the center of the top of the connector then it's a Jasper.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    It's a power supply that's newer than the Xbox. Because they work fine in the other direction (use a launch PSU on my Falcon 360 all the time) because the 360 will only pull down the power it needs, but newer PSUs can't supply older Xboxes with enough power.

    The seller should be offering to take the PSU back and send you one that actually works.

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  • Tucanwarrior13Tucanwarrior13 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
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    The PSU they sent me was the one to the far right. The one I need is in the middle. So my XBox has the falcon chip set?

    FyreWulff: I conctacted them. Hopefully that's what they decide to do.

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  • xrayspex27xrayspex27 Registered User new member
    edited May 2010
    If it isn't the correct power supply, but it still fits, will it damage the system?

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  • TetraNitroCubaneTetraNitroCubane Not Angry... Just VERY Disappointed...Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    xrayspex27 wrote: »
    If it isn't the correct power supply, but it still fits, will it damage the system?

    Nope.
    Microsoft wrote:
    The connector on the end of your power supply is keyed to fit into Xbox 360 consoles with which the power supply is compatible. If the power supply cord will not plug into your Xbox 360 console, make sure that the power supply is the correct kind for your Xbox 360 console.

    They're designed so that only PSUs offering more power than the system needs will fit. I use the launch 203 W PSU with the Jasper (which ships with the 150 W PSU). Haven't had a problem yet.

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  • ashridahashridah Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    TetraNitroCubane wrote: »
    xrayspex27 wrote: »
    If it isn't the correct power supply, but it still fits, will it damage the system?

    Nope.
    Microsoft wrote:
    The connector on the end of your power supply is keyed to fit into Xbox 360 consoles with which the power supply is compatible. If the power supply cord will not plug into your Xbox 360 console, make sure that the power supply is the correct kind for your Xbox 360 console.

    They're designed so that only PSUs offering more power than the system needs will fit. I use the launch 203 W PSU with the Jasper (which ships with the 150 W PSU). Haven't had a problem yet.

    Yeah. the Wattage rating of a power supply is the maximum available to the system. If the system draws less power, then the power supply just doesn't have to work as hard to do its job.

    The problems kick in when the wattage rating isn't high enough to meet the demand of the system. Then you get voltage sagging, and that can result in damage (but is more likely to just refuse to start a system up)

    This, of course, doesn't necessarily 100% apply to every power supply. It's less common now, but older wall-wart type power supplies often were unregulated. Which means if you plug in something that draws less than the expected current, the power supply produced more voltage as a result, and your device would usually get killed by it. This meant you couldn't easily mix and match. Fortunately, for any switching power supply, this isn't a problem.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    ashridah wrote: »
    TetraNitroCubane wrote: »
    xrayspex27 wrote: »
    If it isn't the correct power supply, but it still fits, will it damage the system?

    Nope.
    Microsoft wrote:
    The connector on the end of your power supply is keyed to fit into Xbox 360 consoles with which the power supply is compatible. If the power supply cord will not plug into your Xbox 360 console, make sure that the power supply is the correct kind for your Xbox 360 console.

    They're designed so that only PSUs offering more power than the system needs will fit. I use the launch 203 W PSU with the Jasper (which ships with the 150 W PSU). Haven't had a problem yet.

    Yeah. the Wattage rating of a power supply is the maximum available to the system. If the system draws less power, then the power supply just doesn't have to work as hard to do its job.

    The problems kick in when the wattage rating isn't high enough to meet the demand of the system. Then you get voltage sagging, and that can result in damage (but is more likely to just refuse to start a system up)

    This, of course, doesn't necessarily 100% apply to every power supply. It's less common now, but older wall-wart type power supplies often were unregulated. Which means if you plug in something that draws less than the expected current, the power supply produced more voltage as a result, and your device would usually get killed by it. This meant you couldn't easily mix and match. Fortunately, for any switching power supply, this isn't a problem.

    The 360 ones are also keyed, so you can't even mismatch them if you wanted to.

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