I've seen some posts where people are fine with having TEAPOs in their PSUs and other applications. Not to mention there was some warmth towards YAGEO (which is ran by TEAPO), and I would presume G-LUXON as a result, as TEAPO makes those as well. I've seen some folks seriously debate if TEAPO or Capxon was better... heh. That's like arguing evercon vs. fuhjyyu.
They are *terrible* electrolytics... they let excessive noise through (measurable either by watching your PSUs voltages or in audio applications where hum and hiss will penetrate), don't last very long, and never perform to their specified ratings.
I have an awesome IBM 800 watt PSU stuffed with proper rubycons, and it hits 11.98v on the 12V rail, and all of the other voltages are *spot* on. I checked TEAPO adorned PSUs and... yeah... the 12v rail was almost hitting 13v.
I had an old analog synth stuffed with some TEAPOs on a controller board that was added in (for MIDI purposes)-- the 3rd party add-on was done in recent times. Well after using the synth for a few months it started to lose its mind and the controller was changing all of the settings at random (and some settings that weren't even on the physical control panel...).
Popped it open, and what do you know. TEAPOs littered the add-on controller board. Replaced them with Chemicon KYs and Rubycon RX30s-- problem gone.
--> of course I've seen countless devices with failed exploded TEAPOs, but the above story was more interesting as those were "fresh" TEAPOs that were cosmetically fine doing weird things.
To me TEAPO is almost the epitome of what a 'bad capacitor' entails.
Anyways, I'd like to hear any other stories with TEAPO (bad / good), or why people seriously want to use these things-- or any derivatives in the "TEAPO family".
They are *terrible* electrolytics... they let excessive noise through (measurable either by watching your PSUs voltages or in audio applications where hum and hiss will penetrate), don't last very long, and never perform to their specified ratings.
I have an awesome IBM 800 watt PSU stuffed with proper rubycons, and it hits 11.98v on the 12V rail, and all of the other voltages are *spot* on. I checked TEAPO adorned PSUs and... yeah... the 12v rail was almost hitting 13v.
I had an old analog synth stuffed with some TEAPOs on a controller board that was added in (for MIDI purposes)-- the 3rd party add-on was done in recent times. Well after using the synth for a few months it started to lose its mind and the controller was changing all of the settings at random (and some settings that weren't even on the physical control panel...).
Popped it open, and what do you know. TEAPOs littered the add-on controller board. Replaced them with Chemicon KYs and Rubycon RX30s-- problem gone.
--> of course I've seen countless devices with failed exploded TEAPOs, but the above story was more interesting as those were "fresh" TEAPOs that were cosmetically fine doing weird things.
To me TEAPO is almost the epitome of what a 'bad capacitor' entails.
Anyways, I'd like to hear any other stories with TEAPO (bad / good), or why people seriously want to use these things-- or any derivatives in the "TEAPO family".
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