Circuit inside PC power supply

Hi,

my pc power supply broke yesterday, so instead of trashing it, I opened it to salvage some components. I found this small board inside:

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The psu has and input connection and an aux port to power up the monitor.

This small board was fitted so that it received mains power from the left (from the main cable), then the output (right side) was connected to the main psu circuit board by a couple of wires and soldered to the monitor socket.

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This should be the circuit, the "out" label is going to the monitor and the psu board.
Value for the resistor and cap are correct, no clues for the inductors value, as far as I could observe, there were no values written.

So, what's its purpose? passive PFC? how could I see something interesting from LTspice simulation?

Tnx!

foxOnTheRun said:

So, what's its purpose? passive PFC? how could I see something interesting from LTspice simulation?

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Simple mains filtering - what's this obsession lately about PFC?.

Thanks. The obsession may be driven by "efficiency", "energy saving" and so since ecology and clean environment are resonating in day to day talk, tv show, news and so

Can you give 1-2 tips on how to see filtering effect via LTspice? or at least, the name of the filter configuration?

Thanks!

(also, this thing it isn't fitted in all psus I disassembled, or not?)

foxOnTheRun said:

Thanks. The obsession may be driven by "efficiency", "energy saving" and so since ecology and clean environment are resonating in day to day talk, tv show, news and so

Can you give 1-2 tips on how to see filtering effect via LTspice? or at least, the name of the filter configuration?

Thanks!

(also, this thing it isn't fitted in all psus I disassembled, or not?)

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It's a low-pass filter.

It's fitted in all decent switch-mode PSU's - it helps to keep interference out of the PSU, and reduces interference from the PSU travelling back down the mains.

Can you give 1-2 tips on how to see filtering effect via LTspice?

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Here's the asc file to do that. Run the sim and plot the voltage between L and N.

Nigel Goodwin said:

It's a low-pass filter.

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It's a common-mode filter which blocks EMI (electro magnetic interference) from going back out onto the AC power line. There are very strict regulations about how much EMI a device can cause onto the power line.

https://www.exergia.info/Lightning/lightning7.htm

Thanks you all! I was exactly what I was looking for