Gene Heskett wrote: > There was a period a decade back where the capacitors > were legendarily bad. Your unit may have some of them in it.
It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the Chinese manage to steal the formula from Japan, but translated few things wrongly and the world was flooded with bad caps. In the company I was in back then, PC caught often even fire. We had to mitigate the risk or just replace the PC with more reliable once. This was a good story.