I have an otherwise decent 12V 3A plugpack let down by craps. (Oh so familiar...)
What's bugging me is not that the caps are crap, but that the primary cap is a custom-sized CapXon KW. It's 68uF 400V and 18mmD x 25mmL. It's bulging on top and leaking around the positive lead. The plugpack wouldn't start up, and I'm pretty sure this is to blame. A longer cap would be blocked by the fuse and inlet.
The secondary caps are 2 x CapXon KF 1000uF 16V 10mm and 1 x Teapo SC 680uF 16V 8mm. None of them are bulged, but best to play it safe.
There's also a Teapo SEK 100uF 25V 6.3mm near the transformer which I figure should be replaced with a low ESR cap. Anyway, the big cap is the main problem. Curiously, CapXon has the size mentioned in the KM series - yeah, like that's gonna help
. I then looked at SamXon's KM series, but that didn't take me anywhere. Guess what the only other manufacturer with a 68uF 400V 18mmD x 25mmL general purpose cap was???
What's bugging me is not that the caps are crap, but that the primary cap is a custom-sized CapXon KW. It's 68uF 400V and 18mmD x 25mmL. It's bulging on top and leaking around the positive lead. The plugpack wouldn't start up, and I'm pretty sure this is to blame. A longer cap would be blocked by the fuse and inlet.
The secondary caps are 2 x CapXon KF 1000uF 16V 10mm and 1 x Teapo SC 680uF 16V 8mm. None of them are bulged, but best to play it safe.
There's also a Teapo SEK 100uF 25V 6.3mm near the transformer which I figure should be replaced with a low ESR cap. Anyway, the big cap is the main problem. Curiously, CapXon has the size mentioned in the KM series - yeah, like that's gonna help



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