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Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop?

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, alt.comp.os.windows-10, sci.electronics.repair
Subject Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop?
Date 2025-05-04 14:51 -0400
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On Sun, 5/4/2025 2:14 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2025 00:43:41 +0200, Ivano Rossi wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:01 -0500, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
>>
>>>>> Google:  Hyundai laptop power supply
>>>>>
>>>>> 12V, 2A
>>>>
>>>> That will only work if the company makes only one laptop power supply.
>>>> Does it?
>>>
>>> IDK.  However, if you search the internet, including the Hyundai
>>> website, you will only find the 12V, 2A or 3A models.
>>
>> Isn't 12 volts far too low for any modern laptop power supply?
>> Aren't they usually around 20 volts?
> 
> The only recent laptop I've had that used 12V was the Asus netbook.
> 

You can do VCore power conversion, off the +5V rail.

I have an AthlonXP board (A7N8X), where there was no ATX12V connector,
and the current came in through the ATX 20 pin main connector. Cylindrical
input inductor and three caps on the 5V side. Two iron core toriods on the output
side and five electrolytics. Four MOSFETs, a pair per phase, knuckle draggers
with high gate capacitance. You don't run these on modern power supplies,
you go to the junk room and find one with a "strong" 5V output. While
gaming, the +5V consumption was high enough, it would cause most modern
PSU to shut off :-)

   https://images.anandtech.com/reviews/motherboards/roundups/2002/Q4/nForce2/asus/board.jpg

Four wires on the 20 pin connector, carried the current (13 amps plus).
There was a Richtek 50KHz converter,
and there were some "beefy" MOSFETs on there. And somehow, there
was enough gate swing, to turn those MOSFETs fully on and fully off.
And that powered a 65W processor. Normally, an estimate of a "good"
power rating for a phase on VCore, is a target of 30-35 watts,
so from an estimation perspective, you would expect to find
two phases on such a design (for 65W).

The board designs switched to ATX12V right after that, and suddenly
RichTek wasn't the only game in town.

Most power converters (SMPS) have run at higher frequencies
than 50KHz. The record holder, is the Haswell FIVR inside the
CPU package, running its power converter at 200MHz. Nobody
else has some close to being that bold, since.

The designs today, are rather cheesy. There are some "favored" MOSFETs
for PC design. You use a shitload of those, for no particular reason.
Some of the designs run hot. On the Asus side, they did a multi-phase
design, where they had *three* banks in parallel. That's three phases
with exactly the same timing and firing point, and the currents from them
add. That wouldn't be necessary, if you spent a buck or two more
on a better MOSFET. But I have to admit, I'm impressed with the
temperature rise that gives. Lukewarm  when flat out at 200 Watts.
There is as much heat coming from resistive loss in the PCB, as in the MOSFETs!
There is likely more VCore ripple on those boards, but there is
no sign of instability that I can see.

For that board, an electrical type set up a go-fund-me, to buy a small
multi-channel scope, so he could take pictures of the phase firing order,
and prove what they were doing :-) Which is also a cool aspect of our
current time. Donation-ware reverse engineering.

   Paul

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How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Umberto <canaliumberto@impresatrecolli.com> - 2025-05-01 13:38 -0500
  Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-05-01 20:33 -0500
    Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Randy Jones <randolphJones@randyjones.com> - 2025-05-03 23:17 +0200
      Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-05-03 17:04 -0500
        Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Ivano Rossi <Ivano.Rossi@nospam.tin.it> - 2025-05-04 00:43 +0200
          Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-03 21:12 -0400
          Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-05-04 00:31 -0500
          Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-05-04 18:14 +0000
            Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-04 14:51 -0400
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                Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-07 07:33 -0400
                Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-07 15:16 -0400
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  Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:37 -0400
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  Re: How do I find a power adapter spec for an old Hyundai laptop? "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-05-01 23:52 -0400
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