I'm trying very hard to boycott Chinese-made goods for practical, political, and humanitarian reasons. However, the Chinese-made ATX power supply on my computer has died. I would like to replace it with one not made in China, but my Internet searches are inconclusive at best, and a scrutiny of the whole power supply aisle at Micro Center suggests that every power supply in the world is made in China. I'm willing to go to $200, maybe even $250 to put my money where my mouth is, but it just seems that my hope is futile. Does anyone know of a power supply not made in China? Alternatively, I would consider reconditioning the one I have if anyone actually does that.
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Unfortunatelly I can't tell you just that the electronics industry is a heavy polluter, so it still exists where law about pollution are loose.
Hardly any electronics are made outside Asia, and if you exclude China, South Koreea is the second electronics producer, if that can be a hint. I'm not sure that Zalman, which is a koreean company, actually make something in Koreea. -
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It's a nice thought but I'm sorry to say China is not the worst when it comes to producing stuff, paying workers and treating them well and so on. It's slowly getting better and other countries are becoming cheaper to manufacture stuff into.
Your American companies and their mentality are doing the most damage by basically hiring slave labor in Vietnam, Philippines, China and other emergent countries - the workers in China are happy they make some money and send some home to their poor families.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshop and http://www.thepanelist.net/opinions-...e-cost-of-blue and you'll have something to think about.
Back to the topic... I doubt you're actually going to find something - may be lucky to get a 200-300w psu from some old Pentium 2 - Pentium 3 manufactured in Europe for the market there - for example, I had a Siemens desktop computer powered by a psu made in Italy.Comment
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There was a company called impervio that built their units in taiwan but they are now defunct due to their higher cost and higher than normal failure rates due to some design flaws that scared away companies from using them as an OEM.
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I'd be interested in this, but unfortunately I've never seen a non-China power supply either.Comment
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Build your own. There's a certain Romanian user here who does that
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Closest thing I have is my CH PC Power MOD-400. Originally built in china, but almost completely re-built here in AustraliaI love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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Your best bet is http://www.pcpower.com/index.html and order a custom model.Comment
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zippys and ablecoms are made in taiwan i believe, but zippys are hard to find and expensive, and ablecoms are, well, they're usually only for supermicro stuff (they are essentially the same company after all).Comment
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Taiwan is also China for some time ...Comment
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Most ablecoms are lite-on units, which are made in china.Comment
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My search about Zalman units revealed that they outsource to China-based OEM's.Comment
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