Review on Apevia ITX AP300W Mini ITX Solid Supply by Dexter Rasberry

UPDATE: My mITX board is also burned out. I contacted Apevia and they offered to send me a replacement PSU without even asking any questions, so it seems the norm for RMAs to ask no questions. Too bad they don't send me a new mobo too. DO NOT BUY Update 2: My Windows OEM license is tied to this dead motherboard, so an additional $90 is needed. To hell with you, Apevia! Creation of a low-power ITX machine for a CNC control project. Runs J5005 without GPU and other peripherals. Should be very easy right? There's a power supply, although it's pretty darn odd, they don't have a grommet on the bundle of wires that goes through the case and that could cause a short. Visually checked everything is fine. Picked up the car, everything works. Excellent. Separated and postponed by a few weeks. This is a long term project, I don't have much time to work on it. Went to the fire yesterday. Heard a fairly serious noise of capacitive inrush current when the power cord was plugged in. It's a switching power supply, so no big deal. Start the car, press the power button and - nothing - a few seconds later I can smell cap smoke. Not sure if my ITX board or any components are smoking but the PSU is dead. All rails now measure no more than 30 ohms to ground. Shorting PS_ON to ground does nothing. No signs of life. Positive, there is line voltage at the IEC connector but no downstream activity no matter what. Most likely some or all of the main electrolyte caps have exploded. Of course there was that sugary sweet/polyester smell of insulating resin smoke from a cap or burned electrical wiring insulation. The real problem is that he died 93 days after purchase so I can't just return this POS to Revain. I really, really, really hope I haven't blown my motherboard while I'm at it. Lesson learned. Even for a stupid $150 project (motherboard from the Amazon warehouse, branded replacement RAM from my stash, old SSD) it's not worth saving and buying a $30 PSU. As with RAM, don't buy cheap components as they will burn you out.