On Jun 23, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James E. Therrault <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Capacitors, (caps), are notorious for having a shortened life in solid state >> monitors, TVs etc. It almost seems that they were purposely >> under-engineered. Caps are cheap and it will be obvious upon disassembly >> which ones have failed. > > It didn't help that for several years in the early to mid 2000's a case of > botched industrial espionage resulted in a flood of substandard capacitors in > the market : > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague>
Yeah but big outfits like Samsung should have made good on some of the monitors that failed right after the warranty ended. It's just a bad way of doing business and now I avoid Samsung products like the plague... JT -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
