I'm getting ready to put in a capacitor order. I generally look for nichicon, panny, kemet, or united chemicon, and I'm noticing that there aren't any 1000 hour caps anymore, and not many 2000 hour caps. Most of the caps are rated around 5000 hours or better. Last time I ordered, 1000 hour caps were pretty much most of them, and the very few 10,000 hour caps had pretty bad specs.
So what's the deal, have we made major progress with capacitor reliability in the past few years? Are these high lifetime caps ok to use? It's not that I wouldn't welcome the change, I really would, I'm just skeptical. Is this trickery, i.e. did they change the testing methodology?
Edit: Don't see many 85C caps anymore either. I really hope this is real.
Thanks!
So what's the deal, have we made major progress with capacitor reliability in the past few years? Are these high lifetime caps ok to use? It's not that I wouldn't welcome the change, I really would, I'm just skeptical. Is this trickery, i.e. did they change the testing methodology?
Edit: Don't see many 85C caps anymore either. I really hope this is real.
Thanks!
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