Hi, first post. Im a service tech for guitar related gear and hifi gear. Always looking for better pricing on more expensive parts.
Was looking round epay for some 10000uf caps and found a guy, yes an oriental seller..seems most ads are from that part of the world.. so as i have been here when looking around for info on counterfeit stuff previously, i thought I'd grab 2 caps, as they were cheap enough, and have a look for myself!
They arrived today after about 10 days shipping. Nippon Chemicon KMH. The ad was for a pair of 10000uf 63V 105 degrees caps, i asked them to send me a single 10k and a 22k instead, which they did.
I use these a lot from Element, read nothing but good things regards the chemicon stuff, tho all the ones i get are brown.
These are shiny black, the 10k is the same size as the 22k, tho the 10k is 80V and the 22k is 63V.
They looked so good and were heavy, about right, that i was reluctant to cut them open, but got over that
Ive not cut a cap of this capacitance open before, did with some guitar amp caps of far less capacitance. Took the black cover off, all looked good. Then cut the flat end off with a knife, there was like a heavy wax looking gear in that end but you could see the windings. Then cut the contact end off and saw the same thing. Two tabs from the snapon leads disappearing into the windings. I slit the cap open and emptied it out. Looked like it was immersed in a candle wax maybe 3mm thick all round, tho thin on one side. Unrolled the foil, which was quite long. Leads me to think they were genuine.
I tested them first, and while the 22000uf tested low, it was within tolerance.
The 10000uf which ive not opened up tested high, but again in tolerance.
Seems like not all caps from china are dodgy? They were cheap tho.
I gave him good feedback based on that. However i do not know the age, and there seems a lot of debate on the KMH stuff.These are 35mm diameter x 50mm height. Just thought i'd throw that out there. Wont post his epay crap cos i dunno if thats a done thing. WIll try and get some pics of the opened can up tho to see if it looks like the real deal!
Was looking round epay for some 10000uf caps and found a guy, yes an oriental seller..seems most ads are from that part of the world.. so as i have been here when looking around for info on counterfeit stuff previously, i thought I'd grab 2 caps, as they were cheap enough, and have a look for myself!
They arrived today after about 10 days shipping. Nippon Chemicon KMH. The ad was for a pair of 10000uf 63V 105 degrees caps, i asked them to send me a single 10k and a 22k instead, which they did.
I use these a lot from Element, read nothing but good things regards the chemicon stuff, tho all the ones i get are brown.
These are shiny black, the 10k is the same size as the 22k, tho the 10k is 80V and the 22k is 63V.
They looked so good and were heavy, about right, that i was reluctant to cut them open, but got over that
Ive not cut a cap of this capacitance open before, did with some guitar amp caps of far less capacitance. Took the black cover off, all looked good. Then cut the flat end off with a knife, there was like a heavy wax looking gear in that end but you could see the windings. Then cut the contact end off and saw the same thing. Two tabs from the snapon leads disappearing into the windings. I slit the cap open and emptied it out. Looked like it was immersed in a candle wax maybe 3mm thick all round, tho thin on one side. Unrolled the foil, which was quite long. Leads me to think they were genuine.
I tested them first, and while the 22000uf tested low, it was within tolerance.
The 10000uf which ive not opened up tested high, but again in tolerance.
Seems like not all caps from china are dodgy? They were cheap tho.
I gave him good feedback based on that. However i do not know the age, and there seems a lot of debate on the KMH stuff.These are 35mm diameter x 50mm height. Just thought i'd throw that out there. Wont post his epay crap cos i dunno if thats a done thing. WIll try and get some pics of the opened can up tho to see if it looks like the real deal!
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