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Badcaps Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2011
City & State: Albany, Western Australia
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
Posts: 631
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I have an otherwise decent 12V 3A plugpack let down by craps. (Oh so familiar...)
What's bugging me is not that the caps are crap, but that the primary cap is a custom-sized CapXon KW. It's 68µF 400V and 18mmD x 25mmL. It's bulging on top and leaking around the positive lead. The plugpack wouldn't start up, and I'm pretty sure this is to blame. A longer cap would be blocked by the fuse and inlet. The secondary caps are 2 x CapXon KF 1000µF 16V 10mm and 1 x Teapo SC 680µF 16V 8mm. None of them are bulged, but best to play it safe. There's also a Teapo SEK 100µF 25V 6.3mm near the transformer which I figure should be replaced with a low ESR cap. Anyway, the big cap is the main problem. Curiously, CapXon has the size mentioned in the KM series - yeah, like that's gonna help . I then looked at SamXon's KM series, but that didn't take me anywhere. Guess what the only other manufacturer with a 68µF 400V 18mmD x 25mmL general purpose cap was??? ![]() |
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