Power Supply Is it possible to change the connector of the G-Unique Arch Daemon

Antoine

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Jun 10, 2020
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Hello, if you read this you might be amazed by my ignorance. I didn't find any answer to my questions anywhere, maybe because nobody never found it difficult to solve. I have a problem with my PSU composed of :
- a Meanwell EPP-500-12 (not that I need that much power, but it gives 320 W without a dedicated fan, that didn't seem overkill to me if I get a GPU in the future).
- a Arch Daemon G-Unique.

Of course I need to connect both, The DC input wiring of the G-Unique is a "30 cm, modular, 4pin Power DIN (Kycon KPJX-PM-4S)". That goes normally with a Kycon , which I forgot to buy with the rest of the stuff.
I could just go back on Digikey.com or Mouser.com to Buy but I am in France and last time I used these websites, I had to pay 25 $ of transport and 40 of american exportation taxes. That little 2 $ KPPX-4P thing would cost me around 25 $ at least and I can't find it in Europe.
So I guess It would be possible to just take of the female part and put another connector instead or maybe even a simple Wago ( I don't know if you know what it is if you are american), since the Meanwell EPP-500-12 ends up in just 2 M3 screw terminals.

I guess it would be possible but I wanted to ask you guys before to do anything.
I know that at this point of the PSU, once the EPP-500-12 did its job, we got DC current at 12 volts, but is it still polarised, should I cared about it when changing the connectors, and how to check which is the + and which is the - ? I just see 2 black wires on the G-Unique.

For information, if you think it changes anything, here is the build :
- Gigabyte 470i Aorus pro ax
- Intel 10300T
- Samsung evo 970 ssd M2 PCIe 500go
- Corsair vangeance 2*8gb LPX 2666 Mhz RAM
- No GPU yet
- J-Hack Pure X case

I learned a lot by makingthese past weekswith this first build, now I reached my limits, thanks to those who will help me with that.

Antoine
 

NateDawg72

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Fwiw I had questions like this when starting on my project. I mostly followed the 12v psu thread here and asked questions :)

I use a second hand archdaemon with an epp-400-12. My archdaemon had bullet connectors which I snipped off and crimped m3 ring terminals that I got from a local electronics store in their place.

You should keep track of which is positive and negative. You may have to identify +/- on a known connector coming off the archdaemon and follow those back to the input connector to figure out which wire is which. Maybe there is a better way to do it, but I'm an amateur.
 

Antoine

Efficiency Noob
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Jun 10, 2020
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Hello, I got to plug my Arch daemon G-Unique on the Meanwell EPP-500-12, but I don't know for sure which wire to put on the positive side. I guess, following what I believe how this Kycon KPJX-PM-4S connector works, that it would be like on the picture below :




More importantly, that would end, on the product itself, like that :




What do you know about that, or just what do you think, any help is welcome.
Thanks,
Antoine
 

GuilleAcoustic

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MODERATOR BREAK:

@Antoine I merged your threads here. Please do not make multiple threads to ask the same question over and over. Not only you won't get a faster answer, but you'll likely just be ignored. I guess that your best bet would be to ask @guryhwa directly, as he is the one behind the G-Unique products.
 

Antoine

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Jun 10, 2020
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Thanks for the merge. I had technical problems to show pictures on this thread and made another one without being able to erase the first one.
I ask Guryhwa too by e-mail, but it's still not crystal clear to me. I wanted to ask here know if I understood him well.