Re: Bad low-ESR caps comming out of Korea

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From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:55:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: VECTOR: Bad low-ESR caps comming out of Korea

>
>
> Seems there has been a high rate of PC motherboard failures lately due to
> bad low-ESR caps. I've also heard this has been a problem in power supplies
> for the last few years.
>
> http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html
>
> Anyone who fixed a board with off-brand caps lately might wan to keep an eye
> on them. I'm fairly certain the ones I've gotten are always Vishay or
> Nichicon
>
> -Chris
>
i saw this before,
the ones ABIT had a problem with are dark green (british racing green) with gold writing.
i dont know the make.

what i do know is that they are also used in the FoxLink brand PSU used in the american X-BOX - {ROFL} yet another aspect of how people get screwed over by microsoft!!!!!

as for Nichicon - i am pretty sure they where the ones that used to always leak in old IBM monitors (and my RS6000).

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Received on Thu Feb 6 12:57:43 2003