"Can I con?" caps :)

[dood]

Found these in a PSU... don't remember what brand or anything.... it was a while ago and I just got around to uploading the pics.



First I'd seen a Canicon cap. Thought the name was quite fitting

[gdement]

Re: "Can I con?" caps

Hmm... I've seen some "Cantcon" caps, those things die even on standard Pentium boards. With that lousy attitude of course they don't last. "Canicon" at least has more optimism.

But maybe I misread them. Might have also been "Canicon".

[yanz]

Re: "Can I con?" caps

it was also canicon caps that kill my celeron 300 proc... i also found them on some several cheap psus i recapped..

[gdement]

Re: "Can I con?" caps

When I was learning to replace capacitors, the first board I recapped for practice was a PCChips pentium board on which I had discovered leaking canicons. Before that discovery it gave me plenty of trouble:

The board was used on my sister's old Cyrix M2 @ 225/75. I had just reinstalled Windows on it and been running it for over a week getting software configured. I finally brought it over to her, and the *first* time we powered it up at her apartment I got the Win2k BSOD. I looked like a jackass. I had to bring it back home and reinstall again, this time I determined 75MHz wasn't stable and ran it at 233/66 instead. Less than 6 months later she had the BSOD again and I moved her to a different system. My testing showed that now even 66FSB was unstable in memtest.

Sometime later was when I learned about bad capacitors, and sure enough what few caps that board had were leaking Canicons. I don't think many people had that problem on basic pentium level Socket-7. Canicon is that bad - it easily holds the record for failing in the least demanding board I ever had a cap problem with. I think even GSC must be better than Canicon.