Yet another victim of Antec! Q about cap replacement or RMA

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Re: Yet another victim of Antec! Q about cap replacement or RMA

Like I said, I am 2000 kilometers away from home, and won't be back for 7 weeks. Even sshing into my pc and shutting it down wont make me safe, because, for example, my brother's SmartPower blew when it was sitting on the floor with no load...

Personally, I have a neighbor I trust that I leave a door key with if I'll be away for a while in case something happens and access inside is needed, or to water plants, feed a pet, etc. If I had your concern I could just call and ask them to unplug my PC.

I don't mean to suggest this resolves the topic being discussed, only that having people you trust know you're away and giving them access can have its benefits.

[c_hegge]

Re: Yet another victim of Antec! Q about cap replacement or RMA

I pretty much agree with that. I've never had a failure of a single non-CWT antec and I have had several.

I have - a few times, and yes, they were from bad caps. I've seen a few seasonic Earthwatts get bad OSTs and a Delta made EA-500D with bad LTECs.

As I always say, using bad caps saves 50c in the cost. If they really need that extra 50c, I'll happily pay 50c more for the product. Therefore, bad caps should NEVER under any circumstances be used in any device, end of story.

[dmill89]

Re: Yet another victim of Antec! Q about cap replacement or RMA

I have - a few times, and yes, they were from bad caps. I've seen a few seasonic Earthwatts get bad OSTs and a Delta made EA-500D with bad LTECs.

I've seen them periodically throughout the web but have never had one fail personally. I might just be lucky, but the failures that do occur seem to be at a much lower rate than the old CWT units with Fuhjyyu caps. I can't say there is any mainstream brand that I have never heard of a failure from especially in budget models, but this is not much of an issue so long as the failure rate is low over the average life of the PSU and there is sufficient protection circuitry to prevent damage to other components when the PSU does fail.

As I always say, using bad caps saves 50c in the cost. If they really need that extra 50c, I'll happily pay 50c more for the product. Therefore, bad caps should NEVER under any circumstances be used in any device, end of story.

I'll definitely agree with that. It has appeared to have gotten better. 10 years ago even top of the line PSUs often came with mediocre caps and low-end models came with absolute junk, now most high end PSUs from decent manufactures have Japanese caps and entry to mid level models from decent manufactures have at least mediocre Taiwanese caps (Teapo, OST, Ltec, etc.), while these may not be the most reliable they are much better than the Fuhjyyu, Elite, G-luxon, CapXon, etc. caps that were once common in such units (there are exceptions such as FSP still using CapXons in allot of their units).