Is their a great Korean capacitor company?

[theOracle]

Is there a great Korean capacitor company with the track record as good as a Rubycon or Panasonic or Chemicon or Nichicon??

as in no bad caps, or perhaps just a single series or so, out of millions made.

my boss has specified that all of our caps we use must be manufactured in Japan or Korea.

[Topcat]

Re: Is there a great Korean capacitor company?

not that I know of....stick with nichicon, panasonic or rubycon....all japanese.

[mariushm]

Re: Is their a great Korean capacitor company?

Don't forget about Suncon, the factory that made Sanyo's electrolytic capacitors (sanyo exited business, same factory makes the caps with same materials under suncon brand)

In South Korea, not so much.

The one I know of is Samwha , which is Samsung's factory (or something to that effect)... but they're not that great.

I would recommend you tell your boss to consider Taiwan more than Korea... Teapo is taiwanese and does decent capacitors, certainly better than Samwha.

Also, depending on what you use the capacitors for, I'd have no problems recommending Ltec. Even Su'scon may be good (http://www.su-scon.com.tw/) - I've seen them in plenty of monitors (LG in particular) but i'm yet to see a bulged or bad one.

ps. it's "is there".

ps2. There's also Taicon , which is owned in a large part by Nichicon. They have a factory in Taiwan as well : http://www.taicon.com/product/en-index.htm Delta used to use them a lot, Corsair uses them lately in their high end power supplies.

[theOracle]

Re: Is their a great Korean capacitor company?

well normally I love Taiwanese products, but weren't 95% of all of the badcaps featured here on badcaps.net from Taiwan?

[theOracle]

Re: Is there a great Korean capacitor company?

not that I know of....stick with nichicon, panasonic or rubycon....all japanese.

what about Chemicon? - their record has been near flawless (except for KZG and KZJ) - certainly as good as Nichicon!

[mariushm]

Re: Is their a great Korean capacitor company?

I don't think so, the majority are probably Chinese. But I'm not that old in this business of fixing stuff.

Also, consider that you're bound to find more Taiwanese and Chinese capacitors in hardware you get, simply because there's more equipment out there made with them, cheaper equipment on which corners may be cut (inadequate HOT heatsinks near capacitors, poor quality transistors etc) which makes capacitors die or go bad prematurely.