Re: List of Bad Cap Manufacturers

I see that this thread hasn't been updated in awhile, but it is very interesting reading. I would like to add some suspicious caps to the list if I may. I opened up a Sony VCR, which was bought in 2008 or maybe 2009. Nobody makes VCRs well anymore, and probably for good reason, but I was surprised to get a Sony that was such crap. None of the caps appears to be bad, but in two different places on this board, I've got resistors that have burned up so badly, I am surprised I didn't have a fire to deal with. I have no doubt that if I bothered to test...

Re: Dell GX620

I looked around a bit and found a thread titled "A Look at Caps for Indonesia Market" and found some great photos of Chemicon caps that look exactly like these that I suspect I've had problems with. It wasn't the discussion I thought I had seen on "fake Rubycons". The only difference is in the coloring. These caps look very similar to the Rubycon just in the fact that they have the black and gold coloring. In each photo, the Rubycon cap is on the left for a comparison....

Re: Dell GX620

I could. And I will, but I don't think they are mystery caps. I am almost sure I read in another post somewhere on this site about someone else who described the Rubycon lookalikes in some detail. I will find that link and post it with a couple of pics asap.

Re: Dell GX620

The vent is a Y, except all three divisions are equal size. They have other markings that I don't know the significance of, other than the temp rating. (M)105C, 6(7), 5 I.

Re: Dell GX620

Yes, 85C. Writing from memory. It didn't look like this motherboard had been touched by anybody. What I'm calling a "no-name" capacitor looked just like the Rubycon, essentially with the same coloring, but without the name printed on it. I thought that I had seen in another post somewhere some reference to these being a knock-off of some type, or perhaps it was just a brand that doesn't print the name on the capacitors.

Re: Dell GX620

I want to post this information here, since this forum helped me figure out what was wrong with my GX620 Mini-tower. I also purchased all of my replacement caps from this site as well. This info, I just finished posting on the Dell community forum. I hope it is helpful.

The other posts in this thread are concerning the GX620 ultra small form factor machine, which I believe has a history of worse capacitor problems due to the heat buildup in the little case. My problem was somewhat different, but it appears that replacing the caps was still what fixed...