Re: The same capactitors are now larger

There isn't any space to replace the 8 & 10 mm caps in most smaller PSU's as they are so tightly wedged in.

The origionals are 3300/10 and 2200/10 and 16v.
I may be able to drop the 10v to 6.3 to squeeze them in.

I was looking at the capxon info mainly to match specs, and was surprised they were no longer were the same size.

I see Panasonic now do a skinny FS series, but just when there was light at the end of the tunnel, it turned out to be a train....

They don't include...

It looks like caps have become short and wide recently.

While trying to replace a bad capXon KF series 3300/10v that is 10x30, the same one is now listed as 13x25.


The 10x30 became 13x25
The 8x25 became 10x25

This trend is makes PSU repair nearly impossible, since space is always at a premium.

There don't seem to be any of the better brands that make caps that will fit either.

Very frustrating writing off otherwise good PSU's, and whatever it came out of, due to lack of suitable parts.

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I've just pulled out a Cisco/Linksys SRW2024 Gigabit Switch that died with smoke signals.[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/images/smilies/pimp.gif[/url]

The PSU was the "smoker", and charred the cap, glue and adjacent coil.

More amazing were the 11 other bulging cap's on the board's 12v input and several SMPS circuits supplying the lower voltages.

Nichicon, Stone and KZE ?https://I've just pulled out a Cisco...<br /> The PSU