How are Elite caps?

[Pentium4]

I cracked open a Hipro power supply and of course I recognized all the Teapo's on the secondary but the 2 primary caps are "Elite" they have the same exact font as L-tec and they are lime greenish. I'm guessing they aren't that great?

[Evil Lurker]

Re: How are Elite caps?

Elites are right down there with GSC/Sacon and Capxcoms. Dare I say it, but Fuhjyyu's are better IMO.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: How are Elite caps?

Yeah, they suck. But don't worry about primaries unless the power supply has APFC.

[c_hegge]

Re: How are Elite caps?

^^I was about to say that. If they are primaries, then let them be unless they are bulging.

[Pentium4]

Re: How are Elite caps?

Oh so they are bad...lol. So good thing the secondary are Teapo's instead of vise versa. I used the thing a lot, it was in my server for 10 months and regular usage for another 2 years. I'm wondering if it's even worth keeping? It's 300W, efficiency is around 77%

[capacitorguy]

Re: How are Elite caps?

I have Elite caps in a old CRT monitor of mine (Acer) i got which is one of the last CRT monitors from august 2005 the elite capacitors seem to be good and holding up well. and all the caps in there are Elite not sure how long they will hold up more though!

[Pentium4]

Re: How are Elite caps?

What series are the Elite caps?

[Agent24]

Re: How are Elite caps?

I have Elite caps in a old CRT monitor of mine (Acer) i got which is one of the last CRT monitors from august 2005 the elite capacitors seem to be good and holding up well. and all the caps in there are Elite not sure how long they will hold up more though!

They won't have a very hard life in a CRT monitor\TV compared to a PC SMPS

[stj]

Re: How are Elite caps?

they will if they are smoothing the secondary voltages from the lopt!

[Agent24]

Re: How are Elite caps?

they will if they are smoothing the secondary voltages from the lopt!

Just referring to what I was told here: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=37224 though maybe I worded what I said wrong. Maybe they don't have it easy but it seems they do OK anyway.

Though I don't think anybody mentioned LOPT outputs, so I don't know if it also applies there.

[BigTroll]

Re: How are Elite caps?

ive never really seen them in anything but they have a nice sounding name, surprised ECS doesn't use them.

[stobo]

Re: How are Elite caps?

Elite caps (10,000uf@63V) are used in Adcom audio power amplifiers. My GFA-7707 (7x200WRMS) had a cap failure and it blew out. The amp has 14 of them, will report if more go out. One failure does not condemn this cap/brand, but worth keeping an eye on it!

[lti]

Re: How are Elite caps?

I wonder if Elite has improved. I saw a few back in my electronics repair days, but none of them failed. I've started seeing them in new stuff more often over the last couple years, but that isn't enough time to tell if they suck (unless they really suck, like the old motherboard caps that led to this forum being created).

I noticed that Digikey sells them now, but the prices are strangely high (more expensive than Rubycon for most of the values I've seen).

[RukyCon]

Re: How are Elite caps?

I've pulled a fair number (possibly 50+) of Elite caps from broken (cracked/damaged screen) LCD monitors, and have only come across one that had visibly failed, and that one was near a CCFL inverter transformer that had clearly ran hot. I've also heard at least one PSU reviewer refer to them as a 'good brand' (they also called Teapo a good brand, so it might be best to take that with a grain of salt).

So overall, I wouldn't call them bad, probably nowhere near as good as any of the Japanese caps, but better than the Capxons and Fuhjyyus of the world.

[andrewsawesomr]

Re: How are Elite caps?

In case anyone was wondering, Elite brand capacitors are a product of Taiwan Chinsan Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd.

Their website is http://www.chinsan.com/welcome/