Greetings,
I have something unfortunate to report: SuperMicro's power supply compatibility documentation has gone missing!
I learned of this recently, after receiving this email from SuperMicro:
Hi Chad,
Thank you for contacting Supermicro tech support.
Our power supplies work with the power distributors in the chassis. In general, we don’t provide pin layouts of the power supplies. We don’t encourage users to change models of the power supplies in the chassis. Unfortunately, currently we don’t have a list of power supplies and power distributors compatibility we can release to users.
Thank you.
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This is certainly disturbing news. However, I believe that we, together, can rectify this situation! Surely a number of you own SuperMicro servers and PSUs. If we all write down the information from the PSUs we own, then we might just be able to create a new and wonderful power supply compatibility document for SuperMicro. We'll be helping!
To kick it off, I made a google spreadsheet with all of the basic information already entered and deduped. It is only missing a few important columns that describe the layouts of traces and pins on the interfaces between PSUs and the power distributor (or power backplane) that they plug into. I've done what I could and entered the information from the PSUs I own, as well as a couple rough guesses based on Ebay listings and a previous reddit post at /r/homelab. In short: I've tried to make it is easy as possible to contribute to the cause.
I beseech you, passionate enthusiasts: if you own SuperMicro PSUs, please record their backplane interface layouts in the new spreadsheet.
Together, we can create a beautiful future where SuperMicro can be confident that their PSUs are well-documented, and where no one will worry about buying an incorrect SuperMicro PSU.
Thank you all, and best of luck!
I have something unfortunate to report: SuperMicro's power supply compatibility documentation has gone missing!
I learned of this recently, after receiving this email from SuperMicro:
Hi Chad,
Thank you for contacting Supermicro tech support.
Our power supplies work with the power distributors in the chassis. In general, we don’t provide pin layouts of the power supplies. We don’t encourage users to change models of the power supplies in the chassis. Unfortunately, currently we don’t have a list of power supplies and power distributors compatibility we can release to users.
Thank you.
...
This is certainly disturbing news. However, I believe that we, together, can rectify this situation! Surely a number of you own SuperMicro servers and PSUs. If we all write down the information from the PSUs we own, then we might just be able to create a new and wonderful power supply compatibility document for SuperMicro. We'll be helping!
To kick it off, I made a google spreadsheet with all of the basic information already entered and deduped. It is only missing a few important columns that describe the layouts of traces and pins on the interfaces between PSUs and the power distributor (or power backplane) that they plug into. I've done what I could and entered the information from the PSUs I own, as well as a couple rough guesses based on Ebay listings and a previous reddit post at /r/homelab. In short: I've tried to make it is easy as possible to contribute to the cause.
I beseech you, passionate enthusiasts: if you own SuperMicro PSUs, please record their backplane interface layouts in the new spreadsheet.
Together, we can create a beautiful future where SuperMicro can be confident that their PSUs are well-documented, and where no one will worry about buying an incorrect SuperMicro PSU.
Thank you all, and best of luck!