From: "Mike Harrison"


>
> >I don't know what Dell is up to but their quality control and over
all
> >quality does seem to be slipping.
>
> ..but if you think they're bad, take a look at the dangerous junk
knocked out by the competition...
> I just took a look inside a fake Dell laptop PSU :
> http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/acadapter.html
> Warning : contains scenes some engineers may find disturbing.

Nice, an obvious fire hazard.  This brings up something I wanted to
mention at the beginning of the thread.  From what I've heard, most of
the failing Dell power supplies is due to the second round of bad
capacitors to flood the world markets.  Apparently someone is still
using the bad/stolen formula since bulging/exploding caps are becoming
popular again.  I have seen several motherboard failures within the last
year (boards < 2 years old) due to burst/leaking caps.  These were
quality, name-brand boards.  Well, excepting the Epox board anyway.  ;-)

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