How does one test a switching power supply for short circuit protection?

[the great waldo]

Hello All

I there any way of testing a chinese switching power supply to see if it has short circuit protection , other than shorting it and see if the blue smoke appears ?
Cheers
Andrew

[Muzzer]

No

[Voicecoil]

Or find a mystic and ask Confucius.

[m_c]

Shorting it out is a very crude way.
More scientific way would be to gradually increase the load, and see if/when it shutdown, and how it recovers.