The bad capacitors were produced from around 1999 to 2003, but the effects
lasted for several years afterward. Dell got burned for some $420 Million,
also Apple, HP, Intel, IBM and others got hit for huge sums. Here's the sad
story from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
At the end is the speculation about the stolen formula, which is intriguing to
say the least! This hit Ten Tec as well, and even if you sent your radio back
to them, they replaced the caps with ones from the same bad batch before all of
this was known.
Ron Castro
N6IE
www.N6IE.com
Member:
ARRL
Redwood Empire DX Assn.
Northern California Contest Club
Northern California DX Foundation
Society of Broadcast Engineers
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Duane Calvin
Sent: November 12, 2015 8:33 PM
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II master resetting each turn on
For some period of time a few years back, EVERYONE had problems with
electrolytics due to a stolen fake formula for the electrolytic compound in the
caps. Sure caused a lot of problems. I had to repair my Samsung big-screen TV
by replacing electrolytics on the power supply board, for example. I used to
know the years this occurred, but no room in my memory for that any more!
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac5aa@ac5aa.com
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