I have developed below, comparison tables of the characteristics of 5 major Japanese Low ESR capacitors which i hope you find useful for ease of comparison instead of referring to the PDF technical data sheets.
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Direct links to the tables
Sizing / Capacitance of each manufacturer's series
Chemicon | Nichicon | Panasonic | Rubycon | Sanyo
Complete List of the tables:
1000uF & 1200uF Caps
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6.3v 8mm 10mm
10v 8mm 10mm
16v 8mm 10mm
1500uF & 1800uF Caps
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6.3v 8mm 10mm
10v 8mm 10mm
16v 10mm
2200uF Caps
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6.3v 8mm 10mm
10v 10mm
16v 10mm 12.5mm
2700uF Caps
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6.3v 10mm 12.5mm
10v 10mm 12.5mm
16v 12.5mm
3300uF Caps
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6.3v 10mm 12.5mm
10v 12.5mm
16v 12.5mm
3900uF Caps
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6.3v 12.5mm
10v 12.5mm
16v 12.5mmLast edited by willawake; 06-08-2006, 02:27 AM.days are so short when you actually do something.. -
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1000uF & 1200uF 8mm 10v Caps
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so far so good...
1000uF & 1200uF 10mm 10v Caps
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1500uF & 1800uF 8mm 6.3v Caps
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1500uF & 1800uF 10mm 10v Caps
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1500uF & 1800uF 10mm 16v Caps
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2200uF 10mm 6.3v Caps
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2200uF 10mm 10v Caps
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2200uF 10mm 16v Caps
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3300uF 10mm 6.3v Caps
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Well, after 6 hours nontsop working on this, i give up. That's as far as my blood (& eyes) could go
, honestly it took tons of drink to complete them. And im not satisfied yet with the result. A scripted webpage would be more excellent...
At 1000uF range, diameter of the caps became less important as they are easy to obtain at 10mm and 8mm. So it would be simpler and more compact if I include the 8mm and 10mm at the same table.. But that can not do, i have to keep my table consistent.. doh!!
Comments are always welcome..
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Yanz, you've done a lot of work! I would suggest grouping the caps by similar performance rather than by vendor. Since many vendors' have series whose specs are very, very similar (e.g. KY and HE, or LXZ and PW), users of your chart could both see what is available for a specific value and voltage, and the grades of performance.PeteS in CA
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Originally posted by PeteS in CA
Thanks! Yup, you are right. That gives me an idea of how the data would be useful for they who need it.. The work is still far from finish.
Altough i have done a caps comparison by performance, let me think again how to put the data in the table. I ask to myself: should I use one table or several tables.. or no tables at all just links to them. What is the easiest arangement so it can be read easily... etc..
Another idea: table of relation between endurance and temp (range from 105C, 95C, 85C... 35C)
Anyway i hope my raw data are easy to read, and i hope the color code do some help
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I will attach the excel documents when it is ready.
We'll have to do sorting and grouping those series/brand by their performance. Pls give me input/opinion about that...
BTW I include my own observation. Caps with very close characteristics:
- group 1: Chemicon LXZ = Nichicon PW = Panasonic FC
group 2: Chemicon KZH ~ Nichicon HV ~ Rubycon ZLH
group 3: Chemicon KY = Nichicon HE = Rubycon YXG
group 4: Chemicon KZE = Nichicon HD = Rubycon ZL = Sanyo WX
group 5: Chemicon KZG = Rubycon MBZ = Sanyo WG
group 6: Chemicon KZJ = Rubycon MCZ
group 7: Nichicon HZ
Performance grade:- group 1 < group 2 < group 3 < group 4 < group 5 < group 6
This rise some question:- Where is Panasonic FM belong in the comparison?
group 5 < Panasonic FM < group 6
- Or, Nichicon PM ?
Nichicon PM = Chemicon LXY/LXV ~ group 1
Why are'nt they belong to group 1 ? They are longer size so they are slightly better in impedance. But if that isnt enough to justify it, we can add them to group 1:
group 1: Chemicon LXZ = Nichicon PW = Panasonic FC = ( Nichicon PM + Chemicon LXY)
Now this gives me a headache. There are a lot of series with almost the same spec but different in case size (advanced technology) and endurance . Wait, should we create comparison by endurance?
Isn't endurance = performance?
Man, i would avoid complexity as much as possible. *double headache.. help!
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- group 1: Chemicon LXZ = Nichicon PW = Panasonic FC
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Check also the thread made by Big Pope:
(Comparison Table of 4 Major Japanese Low ESR Capacitors)
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1191
He made this:
Code:Nichicon NCC Rubycon SANYO Remarks VZ KMG YXA MV-CZ 105C General Purpose PW LXZ - MV-CX Miniature, Low ESR HE KY YXG MV-CA K6, K6-2, P2, P3 grade HD KZE ZL MV-WX K7, P3 grade HV KZH ZLH - Extra long life, miniature, Low ESR HM KZG MBZ MV-WG K7, K8, P4, P4+ high quality grade HN KZJ MCZ - Ultra Low ESR HZ - - - Lowest ESR of all electrolyte capacitors
What i disagree from that table are:
- Sanyo CA is far worse than Rubyon YXG and Chemicon KY/Nichicon HE
- Should we include Nichicon HN/HM?. They are on badcaps list.
- I would avoid Nichicon VZ, Chemicon KMG, Rubycon YXA, because of their higher ESR. But their quality are better then some LESR Taiwanese Caps. I know some people use some general purpose of japanese caps (like Rainbow) for recaping with no probs. I was once using Chemicon SXE (general purpose) with no success. I have to ask japlytic though, wether he use the SXE for PC board or Audio hardwares.. Probably SXE is good for certain board that fine with higher ESR Caps.
- Panasonic caps should be included in the comparuson due to the popular use of FJ series..days are so short when you actually do something..Comment
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1000uF 8mm 16v Caps
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1000uF & 1200uF 16mm 16v Caps
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IMO, PM, like PR and PJ are getting near to being near to series end-of-life.
I did a similar exercise with 50V, 16x25 parts and came up with similar groupings, except:
* Group 2 >> HV, KZH, and YXG
* Group 3 >> HE, KY, YXH
* Group X >> KZM, ZLH
The HM, HN, HZ and equivalents don't go high enough in voltage for my purposes, so I didn't look at them very closely.PeteS in CA
Power Supplies should be boring: No loud noises, no bright flashes, and no bad smells.
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Sory, long time no updates.. i've got busy This thread doesn't get much attention anyway.. so..
@Petes, well, my bad that the performance comparison i made in the last post is wrong, so for the caps with rated voltage of 6.3v - 16v IMO the right grouping is like this:
Code:Group Chemicon Nichicon Rubycon Sanyo Panasonic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 LXZ PW - - FC 2 KY HE YXG - - 3 KZH HV ZLH - - 4 KZE HD ZL WX - 5 KZG MBZ - WG - 6 - - ZLG - FM 7 KZJ MCZ - - - 8 - HZ - - -
group 1 < group 2 < group 3 < group 4 < group 5 < group 6 < group 7 < group 8
I am pretty much sure that's the final arrangement.
(We could see some samxon series on group 5 - 8 but samxon caps quality are still under monitoring by some of us.. I guess that will need about 3-4 years).
Like you've mentioned, some of the series are being near to their end-of-life. Some series even has been discontinued. But I still see plenty of supply of them, example is the HFQ series from Panny.
The rule of the grouping can be different for voltage range of 25v - 50v like you've mentioned. Some of the manufacturers are pretty consistent in using the 'standard' can size, but some others use widely (odd) variation for the can size, so two series that have similar spec/formula on 6.3v - 10v can be different in spec for 25v-50v range.days are so short when you actually do something..Comment
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