I plan on sleeving my Enermax power supply, but there is one thing I need to be sure of before I can start: can I remove the existing sleeving (chrome/silver colored) without any problems, or do they server as a wire of some sort? The reason for asking this is that someone mentionned this briefly in the description of his mod, he said something like 'the enermax sleeving acts like a ground wire' or something like that. Is that possible? and if yes, is it ok to use a normal wire instead of that sleeving when I cut it loose? (last question rather silly, answers will be 'yes thats no problem' but I'd like someone to confirm that ^^ ). /edit: here is the link: http://www.aros.net/~gary3985/computer/psumod.html first piece of text says "the braid is used as the ground conductor, I had to add ground wires to the ATX cable and the aux 12V cable after I removed the copper shielding." I would have checked this myself but I still have the warranty seal on, to check it I have to take it of... which I don't plan on doing unless I'm sure I can mod it the way I like is there anyone out there who has removed the stock sleeving on the ATX / P4 cables of an Enermax? If yes, how did you make sure you still had all the wires in the end?
You could check whether the sleeving is indeed conductive with a multimeter. However i doubt it is, if it were conductive it would be a bad thing to have inside a case with electronic components. The only thing it could serve for is electrical shielding.
with Enermax PSU's, the ATX and P4 wires are sleeved in this metal-looking sleeving, and then there is another layer of plastic around it... I figure that could be to isolate the cable from the other components. due to this plastic 'tube' around it I can't really measure anything without opening the PSU (or cutting through the plastic... =/ )
I see, do you see any of that silver sleeving actually go into the ATX or P4 connector? Or does it end where the plastic ends? Anyway i think it could be removed, as the ATX and P4 connectors have ground connectors themselves. It would probably only serve a shielding purpose.
here is the link: http://www.aros.net/~gary3985/computer/psumod.html first piece of text says "the braid is used as the ground conductor, I had to add ground wires to the ATX cable and the aux 12V cable after I removed the copper shielding." I was wondering if anyone has had the same experience with enermax power supplies... all suggestions are welcome =)
i have the same PSU as you and i ran into the same problem.... some ground wires run into and connect to the metal sleeving so i am pretty sure that it is in fact grounded to it..... its wierd i dont like it cuz those cables are so damn stiff
I really wouldn't have thought that the braiding would have been used instead of the ground wires, just connected to ground to aid the shielding...
thought about that option, but It's not really that I want to change the look, but the way the cable bundle can be bent around corners... in the current situation, with wires in metal sleeving in a plastic tube, the cable is far from flexible and it makes some really ugly bends. I figured if i got rid of the metal sleeving and the plastic tube I would be able to make much closer bends, which is needed to get the wire out of sight =)
