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Beware of the sit/stand Bekant desk, unless you live near an IKEA. The power supply in them goes bad, and it's not a standard power supply either. While they do give you a 10 year warranty on the desk, the replacement of the power supply proved to be difficult for me. My first lasted maybe ~6 months of light use, and took another 4-5 months to get a replacement.

I live ~4 hours away from the nearest IKEA. They completely acknowledged there was a power supply problem when I was able to chat with them on the phone, but only wanted me to bring the whole desk back in for replacement. It's easy to prove it's just the power supply that stops working because the green light goes out on it, and unplugging it a few hours makes it work again. I finally raised enough of a storm they sent me a new one and it's worked since.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IKEA/comments/3h92d6/bekant_sitstan...

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/192585/fault...

http://www.workwhilewalking.com/ikea-bekant-standing-desk-re...

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