How on earth did this happen??

[sofTest]

Re: How on earth did this happen??

This is probably a dud the manufacturer failed to pull before packaging. I found one bulging in a bag of fifty CCs I bought a while back. The others were fine, both ESR and capacitance, when I tested them to be sure. See picture.

[c_hegge]

Re: How on earth did this happen??

Just as long as the others should be reliable. As I said before, I've used them on a few motherboards and I don't want it to come back and bite.

I had a feeling that it was just a dud as even GSC caps aren't usually bad when brand new.

[ant3202]

Re: How on earth did this happen??

the panny caps looks real, so as the electrolytic leaking out color

perhaps this caps sneaked thru QC checks.

[ratdude747]

Re: How on earth did this happen??

oops!

[MixMasta]

Re: How on earth did this happen??

No, it was made in 2006.


6OIVRP

6= 2006
O= October
IV= week 4
RP= "line code in alphabet (A to Z)" - not sure what that really means.

I have some where the month character are numbers. Would a cap that says 64IIOC be:

2006 - April - Week 2 - whatever? I assume after month 9 they then use the letter of the month?

[c_hegge]

Re: How on earth did this happen??

Some of my other panny caps have numbers for the month. I would say you are right about using numbers up to 9 and letters after that