oh, man... WAS: Re:is my power supply failing?

[Colin McGregor]

--- Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Believe me, the people who buy the parts *know*. The
> engineers who set 
> up production *know*, at the latest at the QC
> stations in the factory 
> where sniffing out noise in the onboard smpsus is
> just one of the random 
> tests they do. This is what their job consists of.
> Someone decided to 
> save 5 cents and probably net a bonus. Either that,
> or the chemical 
> disaster was a 'timebomb' and started causing
> trouble after too many 
> hours to be noticed.

The timebomb situation appears to be the case,
capacitors that did work, but had less than half the
normal usefull life. Here are some articles that go
into detail about what happened:

http://www.burtonsys.com/bad_BP6/story1.html
http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_30328/article.html

Colin

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