lsmartino wrote:
clare ha escrito:


I replace enought ATX computer SMPSs before they hit 3 years - many
within 2, and too many within one. And they are running, in many
cases, on protected power supplies.


Me too, and the problem doesn´t stops with the SMPS. I have seen
enough motherboard failures caused by defective capacitors. In fact,
there is even a website www.badcaps.net dedicated to motherboard
failures caused by bad capacitors.



That was not planned, an electrolyte manufacture stole an incomplete
formula and sold loads of defective electrolyte to capacitor makers.