Those *^#&%@#&!! Cheap A$$ Chinese Caps Got Me Again...

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Those *^#&%@#&!! Cheap A$$ Chinese Caps Got Me Again...

I went to my computer to log onto KLOV and to send a few emails and saw the LCD display was all screwed up. Tried a reboot and also a different LCD to no avail. So it had to be the video card. Yup - 4 of the caps had vented. I replaced all of them and am back in business.

This is the second video card with which I have had this pleasure. The other was on my wife's desktop about a year ago. I replaced those caps and she has been in business ever since.

Crap is crap - typical low cost cheap parts. They work great for awhile then BAM!!

I have repaired countless LCD monitors with bad caps in the power supplies.

There is a great forum called "badcaps" (badcaps.net) that documents all of these products and how to identify and replace bad capacitors. That demonstrates how much of an issue this really is. The video card was listed there but I did not have to refer to it.

So my middle finger is out toward the Chinese "crap cap" factory once again. So much for "local content" on a PCB....

Bill
 
I know what you mean! I have a cheaper motherboard and have had caps blow on it two times. Luckily under warranty. I figure if they go again its a Better MB or replace with my own caps.
2 times it happening is stupid!

I actually just replaced 4 caps on our HP Inkjet printer also. They were listed online as a major problem with this printer. But HP wouldn't recognize the problem
 
bitd when people wernt poor id buy non working tvs and 75% of the time it was just bad caps.

Used to buy broken, fix, resell.

Now "new" tvs of even shittier quality sell so cheap, its not worth the effort to do what i did anymore. buy a tv fix it if it needs more than caps id have 200-250 in it and a new comparable set is 300 so id be lucky to get 150, it just stopped making sense go to go through all that effort.

I do still get the occasional set if and when i come across them but i never pull the trigger untill i strongly suspect bad caps and after research find out that particular model is plagued with bad caps.


FYI the monitor im using right now had bad caps in it too hehe
 
your lucky. all my video card/MB failures almost never show physical damage and are usually the chip going/gone bad. I WISH i had blown caps to stand out and screem at me. At least i would then know what the issue was.....

guess thats why i own an esr :)
 
bitd when people wernt poor id buy non working tvs and 75% of the time it was just bad caps.

Used to buy broken, fix, resell.

Now "new" tvs of even shittier quality sell so cheap, its not worth the effort to do what i did anymore. buy a tv fix it if it needs more than caps id have 200-250 in it and a new comparable set is 300 so id be lucky to get 150, it just stopped making sense go to go through all that effort.

I do still get the occasional set if and when i come across them but i never pull the trigger untill i strongly suspect bad caps and after research find out that particular model is plagued with bad caps.


FYI the monitor im using right now had bad caps in it too hehe

I remember as a boy taking a shoe box of tubes,from the tv, to the pharmacy to test them in the big tube tester. It had several different sockets and you just put the tub in the correct socket. Turn the knob and it would show good/bad/weak. The replacements were in the door at the bottom of the tub tester. I miss the simple ways of fixing stuff and stuff that just seem to work. I still have a tube radio that works to this day.

It is nice to see these are being preserved also

http://antiquetvguy.com/Web Pages/T...'s U-Test-M Tube Tester/Mid-50s-U-TEST-M.html
 
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