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  • trodas
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Jan 2006
    • 770
    • Czech republic

    #1

    What is this polymer?

    You are looking at ECS 945GCT-D board with Intel Atom CPU and his Vcore caps. Everyone recognize the OST ones, I bet. But the 270uF 16V input polymer?



    The color is very much like Nichicon (Nichicon LE looks similar - http://trodas.wz.cz/kondiky/cap_images/1215252750.jpg -, but did not have the voltage rating on itself and it is not a RP one anyway) but it is not. I hope OST is not started producing polymers of similar quality as their elyte caps?
    "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
    "I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts..." - Hemingway my config - my caps
  • Leopard
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2008
    • 109
    • Finland

    #2
    Re: What is this polymer?

    http://capacitor.web.fc2.com/solidcapacitor.html

    I'd say that's an Elite brand polymer.

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    • Paul S
      Badcaps Veteran
      • Sep 2006
      • 326

      #3
      Re: What is this polymer?

      Nice find.
      Here's a data sheet on it:
      http://www.chinsan.co.th/files/RP.pdf

      My Firefox is having a hard time displaying that file (it's not).

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      • Leopard
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2008
        • 109
        • Finland

        #4
        Re: What is this polymer?

        Typo in the datasheet pdf.
        "Green Design: RoSH"

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        • kc8adu
          Super Moderator
          • Nov 2003
          • 8832
          • U.S.A!

          #5
          Re: What is this polymer?

          Roshlol!

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          • Paul S
            Badcaps Veteran
            • Sep 2006
            • 326

            #6
            Re: What is this polymer?

            Did you notice that there isn't a 16V 270uF cap listed?

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            • Krankshaft
              Badcaps Legend
              • Jan 2007
              • 2328
              • USA

              #7
              Re: What is this polymer?

              I refuse to buy from a company who can't spell or complete a sentence with good grammar.

              I'm sure that they take the same care with the products they manufacture.

              I'm glad that those components are ROSH compliant .

              Elite? I replace their wet electrolytics on site another crapacitor company.

              I know that they are polymers in the picture without electrolyte but that just means they won't let you know when they fail.
              Last edited by Krankshaft; 07-26-2008, 03:55 PM.
              Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.

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              • trodas
                Badcaps Veteran
                • Jan 2006
                • 770
                • Czech republic

                #8
                Re: What is this polymer?

                Oh, nice find, guys! Thanks a lot!

                Elite, hmmm. Recap that crap ASAP.

                Did you notice that there isn't a 16V 270uF cap listed?
                Many companies do custom caps, or not update the datasheets... a Samxon GD 2200uF 16V d10 or Samxon GD 470uF 6.3V d6.3 is good examples.
                But I agree that a 270uF 16V d8 is too generic capacity that it SHOULD get listed. It is used frequently in Asus Vcore input boards...

                I refuse to buy from a company who can't spell or complete a sentence with good grammar.
                If it was only that... Elite wet elytes are "not so elite" ones anyway, I would rate them as bad caps, but I'm always too harsh.

                I know that they are polymers in the picture without electrolyte but that just means they won't let you know when they fail.
                On the contrary. I seen many examples when these Elite polymers on the Vcore input on Asus mobos blow-up. So, don't worry. You WILL see and hear them fail





                "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
                "I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts..." - Hemingway my config - my caps

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