Friday, July 2, 2010

Failing Chinese Capacitors in TV Monitors, Computers Could Create Havoc

Note: This may be off topic but a reader notified me this info:


Every electronic device from TV's Monitors, PC's to CAR COMPUTERS uses capacitors. Many are infected with defective Chinese capacitors ! !
This means that electronics fail after 1 to 3 years of use. Full details here:

Here is the Wickipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Cause_of_the_failing_capacitors

Replacement capacitor kits and HOW TO instructions
http://www.badcaps.net/

Google Search "leaking capacitors Computers" = 1 million results
Dell plagued by bad capacitors
http://news.cnet.com/PCs-plagued-by-bad-capacitors/2100-1041_3-5942647.html

Google Search "leaking capacitors engine computers" = 52,000 results
Suzuki Car Computer ( one of many listed )
http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/engine/ecm/ecmfix.htm
Is THIS why Toyota's are running away?

Google Search "Bad Capacitors TV"=  800,000 results

One of MANY videos on how to identify/replace a capacitor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on_2CP52cW4
( He should be wearing a wrist strap to ground himself, available at Radio Shack  )
Note the bulging tops & or leakage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDGjWOabJ2E&feature=related

56 comments:

  1. This is no surprise to me: I used to work for OSRAM SYLVANIA, and our Capacitors (ballasts) for the HID lights were manufactured in China. They were 100% QA Retested here in the US, and had a failure rate of about 80%. Once tested and "passed", the "Made in China" label was removed, and a "Made in USA" one was put on.

    All of this is just an example of when something is "BUILT FOR A PRICE" and the quality has been cut out of the product; what exactly is the point of being in business? You can only profit so long by pushing a bunch of garbage out into the marketplace.

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  2. With china goods the consumer is always the QC inspector. Sure Target or WalMart takes back the cheap crap and refunds, but your effective cost goes through the roof.

    Buy quality and pay the extra cost up front, assuming you can even find it.

    Welcome to the global economy.

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  3. Shoddy products coming from China you say?...No way!

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  4. "Once tested and "passed", the "Made in China" label was removed, and a "Made in USA" one was put on.

    Under globalsist free trade there are lots of scams by the multi-nationals .
    multi-nationals export most of the products from China.
    They have to meet say Wall mart specifications .
    A lot of "Made in China" commodities are only from cheap labour assembly line work .
    The electrical components may be first made by the multinational company in the USA,singapore, japan and korea.Imported into china and the completed product exported.
    It is these companies that are responsible for the shoddy goods .You can only work with the raw materials provided.

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  5. man that is something about computers i didnt know. And i have been working on them for past 8 yrs.


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