Reminds me of the people who smoke and use the few examples of people who
smoke and live to old age BUT the grave yard is full of those that make
the bulk of smokers who did not.
Not even close to what i said. I said the majority, somewhere between
90-95% of the hundreds of inexpensive PSU's I've used run 5 years or more.
The one I put in the company server in about 1995 is still running. It
cost about $20 then.
Cheap power supplies have a piss poor success rate but you have one
that's a miracle magic ones deifying average you think its something to
promote to everyone.
I don't know where you get your success rate figures from, but I know
where mine come from, and the PSU works just as good as the expensive
ones. Granted I don't run extensive test to see if they actually put out
100% of their ratings, but I don't care about that. At under $20 a pop
they work, and work well enough for any system I've built. If they didn't,
I wouldn't use them in my machine and certainly not in machines we sell
and maintain at customers sites, since failures cost way more money in
time than than the price of an expensive PSU.
I was hired by a local shop to manage their tech shop, the money coming
in was not equaling salaries out? I discovered the amount of power
supply failures and problems associated with the same were taking half
the day for most technicians. I instituted a NO cheap power supplies
sold as stand alone or in cases. Those problems disappeared almost
instantly freeing up our technicians to make money not diagnose $20 poor
power supplies. Buy cheap buy twice, sell cheep pay too many
technicians. (Ram as well) You stubbornly stick to promoting junk and if
you made computers for my clients insisting using those piss poor power
supplies you would not work for me.
There's many reasons reasons you may have had so many failures. And if it
took one of the techs I supervise a half a day to replace a PSU, he'd be
looking for another job fast. Most PSU's can be changed in a matter of
mintues. Certainly less than 30, not counting travel time. The failure
rates you found could just as easily be contributed to the wrong size PSU
ion the first place. I've seen this problem many times. I'll be the first
to admit that cheap PSU's *may* be over rated. Simply buy one with that
in mind and you should be fine. And don't worry, I'm not looking for a
job.
So I gather you don't like cheap ram either? That's all I use too.
A
60ns ram chip is a 60ns ram chip. Doesn't matter who's circuit board you
stick it on as long as the ram is the same PN. I can see you waste a lot
of money, so you would most definately not work for me, at least not for
long. Want to know what I know about ram? I used to design, manufacture
and sell ram upgrades. yep, I designed them, layed them out, had the
boards manufactured, assembled, and distributed. So BS all the other
people you want. I know better.
Thought ? Do you work for the generic power supply consortium?
Nope, I don't work at all any more. Now don't get me wrong, there are some
trashy PSU's out there. I bought 20 old AT PSU's for $2 each. They even
looked trashy. And they had a 20% failure rate within a few months. I know
the others were still going after a couple of years. Needless to say, no
more were purchased. But the majoirty of cheap psu's ( just not that
cheap) work fine.
I wish you continued success with your power supplies, Eyes Open
Luck has nothing to do with it, but thanks.
