On 2019-06-28, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> There was a period a decade back where the capacitors >> were legendarily bad. Your unit may have some of them in it. > > It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the Chinese > manage to steal the formula from Japan, but translated few things wrongly > and the world was flooded with bad caps. In the company I was in back then, > PC caught often even fire. We had to mitigate the risk or just replace the > PC with more reliable once. This was a good story.
I had some of those bad caps in a Dell desktop machine I bought in 2000. They looked like little vertical bulging batteries oozing rust. The machine never caught fire but it did blow a fuse (me too!) on my antiquated breaker panel. As the machine dated to not a single decade ago, however, but two, maybe my bad caps weren't the legendary ones.