Most of my bad caps

[smason]

Since about March 2010 I have saved most of the caps I replaced.
Not all were bad, some were beside others that were bad, as I generally do a complete recap. I'm sure a few are missing.
Lots of Capxon GFs in there.

[Pentium4]

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Nice collection! Yeah Samxon GF are horrible! I'll have to post a picture of my bag, it's got a lot too. Mostly CapXon, Teapo

[Phaihn]

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my collection most of these are still good in that there mostley still good not good brands besides the rubycons ive pulled out of dead xbox 360s and panasonics.

[japlytic]

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Lots of Capxon GFs in there.

Do you mean Samxon GFs?

[smason]

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Do you mean Samxon GFs?

Yes. Exactly.
I used to be able to function on little sleep, but now that I'm old, my brain just quits working.

[Pentium4]

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I knew what he meant

[c_hegge]

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I can never be bothered hanging on to junk or failed caps. They make good fireworks. Of late, though, it's just been mostly Teapo caps I've had to replace, with the odd OST and Chemi-con KZG.

[ben7]

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Nice collections! :P

I just throw mine in a box ... I don't order them in bags and such xD

Too bad I don't have as many things to fix with exploded capacitors here, I love capacitor porn

-Ben

[Phaihn]

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well i could find uses for them primarily trouble shooting and some of the caps i have are rubycons so there still good.

[eccerr0r]

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Most of the bad caps I've tossed... oh well. But since I design + make protos for fun I have a pile of new caps along with "recycled" caps...

[Phaihn]

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i toss most of if not all my failed caps as well

[momaka]

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Too bad I don't have as many things to fix with exploded capacitors here, I love capacitor porn

Watch out! Capacitor porn addiction is a very big problem
The ones with the bulgy tops always turn me on
....
Most of mine are collected in a small container as well. Actually, I have 3 containers: 1 for (visibly) failed caps and Rulycon only , 1 for "okay" caps (i.e. not bulging), and 1 for good cap brands that I've pulled from various broken hardware. Like Phaihn, I have lots of caps from Xbox 360s as well. Most of the ones in my "failed" container are *surprise, surprise* .... CapXon. The ones in the "okay" container are usually re-used either for temporary fixing/testing or various breadboard projects.

[DerStrom8]

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About 90% of my components collection comes from old circuit boards that I have collected over the years. Most of them go into two plastic tackle boxes with 2" x 1.5" compartments. I'm hoping to get a large desktop storage unit with small drawers to replace the boxes, but of course that takes away the ability to move things around easily (the tackle boxes are portable).

There was a time that I collected old disposable cameras for the capacitors. WalMart was a great contributor--once they removed the film from the cameras, all they'd do is throw them away, so I'd walk out of the store with three grocery bags full of used disposable cameras. I built a large capacitor bank with the 300v 120uF caps and used it for projects with exploding wire and coilguns. Unfortunately, the voltage that built up between them was so high that it arced across and destroyed the caps. After that I didn't bother collecting any more. But for those of you who like collecting caps like those, Walmart's a great place to start! Just make sure yours still has the photo development booth.

[Pentium4]

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Here is most of mine haha

[momaka]

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But for those of you who like collecting caps like those, Walmart's a great place to start! Just make sure yours still has the photo development booth.

That's actually a very useful piece of information. Favorited, and BIG thank you .
Time to start planning my next HV project

[DerStrom8]

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That's actually a very useful piece of information. Favorited, and BIG thank you .
Time to start planning my next HV project

My pleasure! Glad to help a friend in need

[ben7]

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That's actually a very useful piece of information. Favorited, and BIG thank you .
Time to start planning my next HV project

I can't believe that you didn't learn about that from the web!

[DerStrom8]

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I can't believe that you didn't learn about that from the web!

Wait...you can learn that from the web? I just walked in one day and asked!

[momaka]

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My pleasure! Glad to help a friend in need

Well, you're only helping a little bit. "The need" to have more project parts can never be fully helped or satisfied .

I can't believe that you didn't learn about that from the web!

Yeah, sometimes I can be staring straight at the obvious and yet somehow I will miss it. That's why I like this forum. It has everything, from the general information that you can find elsewhere on the web to very very specific stuff.

Wait...you can learn that from the web? I just walked in one day and asked!

With our generation, if it's not on the web, then it doesn't exist and you cannot learn it

[DerStrom8]

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Well, you're only helping a little bit. "The need" to have more project parts can never be fully helped or satisfied .

Well at least it's useful in one aspect

Yeah, sometimes I can be staring straight at the obvious and yet somehow I will miss it. That's why I like this forum. It has everything, from the general information that you can find elsewhere on the web to very very specific stuff.

Well said. Forums have really helped me a lot over the past several years. Not to mention, all the people I've met. Absolutely awesome.

With our generation, if it's not on the web, then it doesn't exist and you cannot learn it

That may be true, but when I was growing up internet didn't exist. I'd have to go out and learn things on my own. I guess I still have a knack for it