weird caps from a broken car radio

[RukyCon]

hello
i opened up a broken sony car radio which i'm going to be using for parts and i'm wondering what caps i should salvage from it

now i am going to save the rubycon and nichicon caps from it but there are 2 other brands that i need to know if they are good or not
brands
Rpe [the R is it a box kanda like the M on the panny caps and i've seen them in some DVD players]
DRIVE.S [looks a lot like a UCC cap]

i will try to take photos sometime soon

[RukyCon]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

forgot to fix some typos and i did some edits aswell
hello
i opened up a broken sony car radio which i'm going to be using for parts and i'm wondering what caps i should salvage from it
picture of the board

now i am going to save the rubycon and nichicon caps from it but there are 2 other brands that i need to know if they are good or not
brands
Rpe [the R is in a box kanda like the M on the panny caps and i've seen them in some DVD players and VCR's]
DRIVE.S [looks a lot like a UCC cap. it has a brown heatshrink with gold colored text and neg stripe seen here]

[Stefan Payne]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

It's possible that that's some custom sleeve for Sony.

If you order enough caps, you can ask the cap manufacturer to do some custom sleeves, as does in some lower end Super Flower designs with reddish/brownish Teapo sleeved caps or CapXon GF....

[petehall347]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

i would just buy new ones .. then save the old ones from that job .. saves work and get a pile of old caps to throw on a fire .

[dmill89]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

It's possible that that's some custom sleeve for Sony.

If you order enough caps, you can ask the cap manufacturer to do some custom sleeves

^This, I would suspect it is a Chemi-Con based on the vent, sleeve color, and the fact that I've seen custom sleeved Chemi-Cons in Sony receivers before (and I've seen custom sleeved Panasonics in Kenwood receivers/amps, custom sleeving appears to be fairly common for audio caps).

[Agent24]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

I wonder if it's one certified for automotive use, considering the name.

[RukyCon]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

ok so the DRIVE.S cap could be a NCC/UCC cap
but i still don't know if the Rpe caps are good or if they are a bad brand
i've seen the Rpe caps it some DVD players and some VCR's tho i've never seen a dead one nor have i seen one over 220uf
they could be a cheap chinese cap
tho i've never seen chinese caps in any sony product i've mostly see brands like rubycon UCC and nichicon [and in older sony product's i've seen some elna caps]

[RukyCon]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

here is a Rpe cap

[Wester547]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

R = Tiny Rubycon. See here. That tiny 85ºC cap was made in Indonesia, during the 52nd week of 2009 (December 2009). Newer Sony products are known to have Lelon in them, in "less" critical areas. The font on that "DRIVE.S" capacitor, beneath the logo, matches that of a Chemi-con.

[Heihachi_73]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

Yep, genuine Rubycon caps have an R in a square as the logo on the really small caps, where Rubycon wouldn't fit.

[RukyCon]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

so the Rpe caps are rubycon ok cool
now i'm more likely to save them
and i did not know sony now uses Lelon cap sometime in less critical areas
so now i may get to desoldering tonight and maybe do a few dead PSU's
thank you

[dmill89]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

i did not know sony now uses Lelon cap sometime in less critical areas

Yep, at least Sony still sticks to the good stuff for the most part in "critical areas" (power supply and audio path) of their audio equipment, Yamaha uses Jamicons all over in their cheaper receivers/amps, and polk has been using crap like Jun-Fu in their powered subwoofers for over a decade, and conductive glue as well (I had a now dead Polk PSW, though it was the conductive glue and not the crap caps that killed it).

[RukyCon]

Re: weird caps from a broken car radio

some of the dead PSU's i have use that conductive glue to hold some parts down