I'm just wondering how you came up with the "bad caps" designation on several of your listed power supplies.

Take the BFG LS-450. You suggest recapping the "bad caps" found inside the unit. Care to list the bad caps? Certainly not the Chemi-Con caps.....maybe you meant the few Teapo caps found inside? If that's the case, I suggest you reevaluate your definition of what a "bad cap" is then. Teapo certainly isn't Chemi-Con or Rubycon quality, but it certainly isn't considered a "bad cap" by any stretch of the imagination. If that was the case, boatloads of PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cools have loads of "bad caps" soldered inside them as Win-Tact uses them almost exclusively in Turbo Cool builds for PCP&C, and I don't think anyone considers a Turbo Cool as being a power supply needing recapping.

As for bad transistors, the fact is most are just great......transistors are hard to screw up. The essential problem is not the quality but underspec'ing the size of them used in budget power supplies, leading to them becoming overloaded. When one attempts to make a $50 power supply, one tends to cut designs to the bone, leading to spec'ing components that are "just good enough" instead of being more than what's needed.

Again, what information are you basing all your determinations upon what is a "bad cap" and "bad semiconductors"?