theOracle , I wish I had direct access to DigiKey & Mouser unfortunately where I am located there are two options Aliexpress or LCSC. Bought from Digikey once 10x TI NE5532 shipped to Canada and waited 9 months for someone to deliver them to me. There are a few sellers on Aliexpress that sell genuine branded capacitors; the sellers I buy from always have NOS and never sell from the new batch had to reform a few.

Hello everyone, I'm Kabir.
After encountering a slew of Chengs, Chongs, Chings, and Changs in various power supplies, my capacitor adventures eventually led me to this blessed forum. I've been tinkering with electronics for a while from SMPS repairs to capacitor reforming and I look forward to learning and sharing with the community here. Glad to be on board!

momaka, Thank you for the response. I had my suspicions about the authenticity as well and did some research on vendor specific capacitor models. It turns out that many large system builders like Dell, HP, etc., use custom capacitors in their power supplies. Interestingly, I had an old Dell LCD monitor with a custom Nippon Chemi-Con KXG 450V 150µF capacitor even though the official datasheet only goes up to 100µF. Another PSU from Delta had a Nichicon KMG 420V 120µF, which also doesn’t appear in the standard datasheet. So I guess these are indeed original, just custom-spec parts made for...

Hi, bought 2x PT 450V 150Uf off Aliexpress seller obviously says original and pretty much all the specs match the datasheets for PTs except the length its 36.46 to 36.3mm instead of 40mm. So original or fake?...