Fake CapXon capacitors?

[jazzie366]

Casing size doesn't match genuine CapXon, printing is much lighter as well. Bung is also different, looks similar to cheapo caps like Chong/ChongX/Chenxing/ChengX/.

The spacing on the letters of the genuine (larger cap) is much closer than that of the suspicious one.

Any thoughts?

[stj]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

does it matter? they are still junk.
they are playing on the name of SamXon who make some good caps (NOT GF SERIES!!!)

[Wester547]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

Casing size doesn't match genuine CapXon, printing is much lighter as well. Bung is also different, looks similar to cheapo caps like Chong/ChongX/Chenxing/ChengX/.

The spacing on the letters of the genuine (larger cap) is much closer than that of the suspicious one.

Any thoughts?

Just inconsistency. They are probably genuine CapXon. Read: not a good thing.

They are probably a custom order which is why they aren't in the datasheet. Light printing, spaced letters, using a bullseye flat rubber bung rather than a thick rubber stand-off ("gas escape end seal"), these are all characteristic of poor QC which rather defines CapXon and many an inconsistent Chinese/Taiwanese brand anyway.

Yeah, Samxon / Man Yue is an okay brand excepting the GF (maybe SF too?) and GK series. Not sure if they are playing on the name of Samxon (both companies were established around 1980), but some other brands definitely do that (Samson, Samcon, etc).

[Behemot]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

Oh Samson…garbage. Been just replacing some in small (18W) rackmount switch power supply…

[dmill89]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

does it matter? they are still junk.

^This, who the hell counterfeits garbage like CapXon? That being said I wouldn't put anything past the Chinese, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone did make fake CapXons, but why?.

[stj]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

maybe to clear old stock of fuk-yu's ?

[Uranium-235]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

I just got into an Antec Basiq 500, they had 8x25 FC custom capXons that aren't listed on any of their sheets, the sheets are all 10x

[Stefan Payne]

Re: Fake CapXon capacitors?

8mm caps for filtering are a very bad idea...