Hi Difficult to tell from the photo which component you are referring to.
Is it the one marked up R91(something).  Looks like a resistor to me. The
white goo is a potting stuff they use to fix components down with looks
like a little over drip from the adjacent heat sink.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:39 PM, <lee@baudalign.com> wrote:

> Can anyone identify the purple blown component in the linked pic?  My
> father emailed me this pic, has blown a component in one of his computer
> power supplies, knowing his tastes in computer it will be a proprietary
> power supply.  It is marked "H1562", and the silkscreen says "R910"
>
> http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9681/kh09blown.jpg
>
> It certainly looks resistor-like, or possibly an inductor?  I haven't
> found anything remotely similar in my searches, though got quite a few
> inductor results with ratings of 1562mA?
> I thought the white stuff beside it was from it's internals, but looking
> at it now I'm not too sure as there also seems to be white stuff on the
> neighboring inductor.
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, as I'm sure the cost of replacing this
> particular power supply would be more than he got the whole computer for.
>
> Lee
>
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