What do real rubycon yk look like ?

[ReeceyBurger123]

Hello everyone lately I have notice a very common issue that I have been coming across with rubycon yk series I ordered supposedly "genuine" from a few different sites to get the values I needed but all seem to be of the same quality and I don't feel that they are genuine. The print is ok but not rubycon standard and the bung isn't the usual rubycon type, they measure fine on the esr meter but I would like to know what you badcappers think as I don't want to use these until I can be sure of them.
Also I have looked these up on-line and they all seem to be the same so I don't know what to think.

[Jooo]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

Pretty sure they are fake... The bung should have a dot in the middle, and printing looks bad.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

Hello thank you for the reply, I know that the bung looks fake but its the same on all rubycon yks ?

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

Confirmed these are fake junk.

[chozo4]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

Pretty sure they are fake... The bung should have a dot in the middle, and printing looks bad.

I have a bunch of YK's I had salvaged off an old plasma TV board long ago. The 16v capacitors I have definitely don't have that dot in the center of the bung but it otherwise matches. I do agree though.. the sleeve printing looks really shoddy in the fakes. The Y and K are spaced too close together and the F in uF is too tall as it's normally about 1/2 the height of the capacitance value.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

I have a bunch of YK's I had salvaged off an old plasma TV board long ago. The 16v capacitors I have definitely don't have that dot in the center of the bung but it otherwise matches. I do agree though.. the sleeve printing looks really shoddy in the fakes.

I Have confirmed that they are fake they capacitance is correct but esr is too high for that series, put them in the bad cap bag.

[stj]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

your in the U.K. you have no excuse not to get your ruby/pana/ncc caps from Farnell.

[mockingbird]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

All "Rubycon" from China on eBay are fake.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

your in the U.K. you have no excuse not to get your ruby/pana/ncc caps from Farnell.

I do use farnell but I can obtain genuine capacitors off ebay I only use supplyers like PCMCS BEHMOT when I do use ebay, but these specific caps I brought off ebay ages ago when I wasnt aware of fakes luckily I never used them !

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

All "Rubycon" from China on eBay are fake.

True.

[chozo4]

Re: What do real rubycon yk look like ?

All "Rubycon" from China on eBay are fake.

True.

Not all are but the chance of them being so are rather high. I ended up buying some Rubycon YXA 400v/6.8uf caps from there that were legit as I needed them in a hurry to fix an SMPS wall wart for my router I was bringing with me overseas. This was before I'd used mouser or newark however.