19 Dec
2011
19 Dec
'11
2:32 a.m.
On 18/12/11 1:49 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Toby Thain wrote:
Yes, an excellent example. Built to fail.
--Toby
On 17/12/11 1:40 PM, spasticcolin-cctalk at
yahoo.com wrote:
You may take a look to an actual mainboard. Mostly there are unused
Places for capacitors in the CPU Voltage Converters.
They know that the condensers will fail and optimizing the time until that
by not solderin all caps in. The ripple will kill them short after the
warranty is over. ...When it first started
happening, I heard the excuse it was a case of industrial espionage
gone wrong where an ingredient was left out of the recipe...
at the time I heard 3 guys from the factory got together and stole 3 parts
of
the formula from a tiawanese factory and defected to mainland china for a
$1M
bounty. But they didn't know of a 4th part; the corrosion inhibitor.
Without the
4th part the caps were supposed to little time bombs, slowly eating away at
their aluminum cases. I do know I woke up one night after having a dream of
popcorn popping only to find a ATX p/s with caps going off like popcorn in
the
room next door. I unplugged the PC and put it in the bath tub and went
back to
sleep. Changed out the p/s the next day and it worked fine.
Right, but the problem I'm talking about is the systemic crime, not some
particular heist. Same kind of mentality and people is responsible, though.
--T
Regards,
Holm