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Bloomin' cheapo capacitors!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="HB13DISH" data-source="post: 478272" data-attributes="member: 262829"><p>I am not surprised at all.</p><p>When an electronics company designs a product, they start off with protypes, then a part list with all the approved parts used.</p><p>When they go into production, their purchasing people look for the cheapest alternatives to use in the assembly lines. Their aim is to lower the price of the products so that the end user can pay less or the company would make a better profit.</p><p>These alternatives are not always suitable because they have never been tested and when the products start to fail, then they get the failure analysis with the parts that keep failing.</p><p>By this time, the company's name and reputation is affected, but hey who cares?</p><p>The purchasing manager can say that he has reduced cost by few cents and therefore he should have a better company's car.</p><p>There is another reason. The electrolytic aluminum capacitors are too expensive from American well known manufacturers and therefore they are purchased from the far east which are good in quality in general, but not as good as the better brands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HB13DISH, post: 478272, member: 262829"] I am not surprised at all. When an electronics company designs a product, they start off with protypes, then a part list with all the approved parts used. When they go into production, their purchasing people look for the cheapest alternatives to use in the assembly lines. Their aim is to lower the price of the products so that the end user can pay less or the company would make a better profit. These alternatives are not always suitable because they have never been tested and when the products start to fail, then they get the failure analysis with the parts that keep failing. By this time, the company's name and reputation is affected, but hey who cares? The purchasing manager can say that he has reduced cost by few cents and therefore he should have a better company's car. There is another reason. The electrolytic aluminum capacitors are too expensive from American well known manufacturers and therefore they are purchased from the far east which are good in quality in general, but not as good as the better brands. [/QUOTE]
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