Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
08-26-2021, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 18,712
Re: Any more info on counterfeit Nichicons?
The trick to low cost shipping is to order in bulk, that way you can split the shipping cost across hundreds of capacitors - round up everything you own that needs to be recapped, and everything your...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
08-26-2021, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 18,712
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
08-26-2021, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 18,712
Re: Any more info on counterfeit Nichicons?
No, do NOT do this - in 2021, if you are not buying your capacitors DIRECTLY from the manufacturer's authorized dealer (as specified on the capacitor manufacturer's website) then you are buying cheap...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
08-26-2021, 04:20 AM
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Replies: 60
Views: 18,712
Re: Any more info on counterfeit Nichicons?
Hello from USA - sadly, although these capacitors are poorly made counterfeit, you can no longer go by looks - because I have seen some fake counterfeit Nichicon and other counterfeit Japanese...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Audio Equipment
07-23-2018, 08:17 PM
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Replies: 10
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Re: NAD T753 revisit
thanks for posting this thread! - about to recap my NAD 326BEE integrated amp in order to get rid of the crappy KSC caps and put first-tier Japanese in - Rubycon, Chemi-con, Nichicon, Panasonic,...
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 10:11 PM
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 09:59 PM
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 09:56 PM
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 09:42 PM
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 09:23 PM
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 09:19 PM
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
10-14-2016, 08:25 PM
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Replies: 16
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Need help on Fluke 87-III mainboard repair
Hi there!
I replace caps for a living, but recently decided to try and fix a multimeter I picked up at a yard sale:
Fluke 87-III
It is in surprisingly good shape, needs a new battery door...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
05-22-2015, 02:20 AM
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Replies: 60
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
02-12-2015, 12:14 AM
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Views: 2,314
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
02-11-2015, 11:59 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,314
Re: Need help identifying these caps!
Here is what I am unclear on, I can see now that these are definitely Nichicon, and I see the high temperature marking, but how do you know they are the UX series, it seems like there are about 20...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
02-11-2015, 11:39 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,314
Re: Need help identifying these caps!
I have a stock of very high quality low-ESR, 105C, through-hole caps from the manufacturers at the bottom of my signature and considering replacing these with them!
by the way, your date decoding...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
02-11-2015, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 6
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Need help identifying these caps!
what amount of capacitance are these and what brand and what type?
and are they a type that has been known to fail?
they are about ~12 years old.
I am assuming the 4 in the top pic are 100 µF...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
12-16-2014, 10:34 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,160
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
12-12-2014, 05:01 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 12,160
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
11-17-2014, 04:30 AM
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Views: 6,205
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
11-17-2014, 03:39 AM
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what is the correct way solder a coin battery?
I sometimes encounter laptop batteries that use coin type batteries, and the full part with connectors is no longer manufactured, and I need to replace the battery, and the actual battery portion is...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
10-24-2014, 08:50 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 18,712
Re: Any more info on counterfeit Nichicons?
Nichicon only has 4 authorized distributors in USA that keep inventory in stock, they are:
Digi-Key
Mouser
Newark
Arrow - Verical division
the first two for sure are just as low cost as...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
09-01-2014, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 75
Views: 21,380
Re: Beware next generation Chinese fake Sanyo WG!
yes, we are a materialistic bully country! - but the good people are in the minority here so change is hard!
I was using Nichicon as an example, same advice goes for Rubycon, NCC, Panasonic etc....
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
09-01-2014, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 75
Views: 21,380
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
09-01-2014, 06:25 AM
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