The word we got from our Dell National Accounts rep was that there was a run of
contaminated electrolyte affectring several capacitor manufactures. Gee, go
figure QC issues in a country still painting toys with lead based paint...
Any way, I recently purchased a pile of low ESR caps from Mouser to fix five
machines from the junk pile at work to build more linux utility boxes.
(perhaps $40) Turned out being a lot harder than I had anticipated as the
internal ground planes on the Dell Motherboards made the old caps dogs to
remove, and the new ones very hard to solder back in without cold joints.
After the first one, I returned the others to the pile and picked up other
machines with good motherboards and bad hard drives or power supplies to get
the rest of the machines I needed.
Guess I failed rework-101...
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 22:04:54 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Robert Atkinson <robert8...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: 5070B once more.... (actually electrolytics)
>>
> I'm not sure if the espionage story is true. However there
> is a problem with electrolytics. the modern ones have got a
> lot smaller and run hotter due to incresed PSU switching
> frequencies.
>
> > From: g4...@g4fre.com
> > Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 2:30 PM
> > I just got hit by this issue in my > Dell GX270. Its the one i use for HPIB
> instruments/Heather....Doing a web search i found
> > lots of posts on they used faulty capacitors.
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