I pretty assume that's what it is.
I spent a pretty penny on my PSU simply to insure that nothing like this would happen.
When it rains it pours.
Nothing works anymore, unless it is old gear. I have had it with China. We should close the book on them and not do business there! Even if that PSU was made in the US, which I doubt, it will still have Chinese components.
Just recently I installed a fuel pump made in China failed in less than thirty days. Cost $48. I now have one made in US with ALL American parts on the way. Cost $125.
I recently had an air conditioner compressor on my Suburban. I refused to have one made in China installed and was prepared to pay twice as much for one of American manufacture.
This week I made a bracket to hold a winch on a trailer for the guy that helps me with this lake place. He brought me a winch from a local boat store. He paid $35, for the only one they had. When I installed the handle and screwed on the locking nut the threads came off the shaft as I screwed it on! Heaven knows what that piece of junk from China is made of.
In February, the hard drive of my laptop was running out of room, so I installed a larger Seagate drive, made in China of course. It failed a month ago! So now I have the old Toshiba drive made in Japan back in it.
What makes matters worse is that my son was a senior research engineer for Seagate, in Minneapolis. He convinced the state side management to increase and improve chips and drives made in Minneapolis. He had millions of dollars worth of gear installed. Then the Oriental masters, I think out of Singapore arrived. They idled all American manufacture, and the new equipment was never used. There were massive layoffs, including my son and all the other research engineers. Fortunately he signed another very good employment contract last week.
So what do we get out of it, massive unemployment in Minneapolis, with worsening of the state budget deficit, and forced to buy a crappy Chinese drive that can't last six months. If this keeps up there will be civil unrest and may be there needs to be. There is a hell of lot of garbage to confront right now.
Last year we had to tear out all the plumbing from the renovation done two years ago had failure of the Chinese so called "brass" fittings. The fittings all had a different metal mix and NONE were plumbing grade brass.
They made largely junk before the recession and now it is all junk. My mechanic friends tell me Chinese auto parts either don't work out of the box or fail in the first 30 days.
Its just a waste and abuse of the world's resources and a total disgrace.
We don't need another Oblah Blah stimulus package, but putting good Americans back to work, making quality gear like we used to. Then the recession will end, not until then.
