I have owned a P500 for about 3 months, and it has the factory mod for the fan/transistor heatsink. Regardless of light or heavy load, the unit runs EXTREMELY HOT-top of case on left side is uncomfortable to touch. Having designed server boxes, my opinion, after taking top cover off, is that the P500 has a serious thermal design issue. The fan is not mounted for good air flow and the air flow chamber is poorly designed.
I had a 82 inch LCOS RPTV plugged into the regen side and was very close to 360 watts and load factor of 97%. Even with top cover off, the unit shuts down periodically. Before I bought it, I was concerned about the unit's power specs and called PS Audio who said the unit should be okay with my 360 watt load.
While the video quality improvement is large(better blacks,better saturated colors, cleaner and sharper picture), I am getting rid of this unit and looking elsewhere because of the very poor thermal design
I had a 82 inch LCOS RPTV plugged into the regen side and was very close to 360 watts and load factor of 97%. Even with top cover off, the unit shuts down periodically. Before I bought it, I was concerned about the unit's power specs and called PS Audio who said the unit should be okay with my 360 watt load.
While the video quality improvement is large(better blacks,better saturated colors, cleaner and sharper picture), I am getting rid of this unit and looking elsewhere because of the very poor thermal design