Re: plasma tv, where do I need to recap?

What's the model of the plasma TV?

Re: White Compound on Electrolytic Caps

It's non acidic silicone glue. You can find it on places like eBay using terms such as "thermal adhesive" or "heatsink plaster". It's used to hold components in place, insulate them from dust and moisture, and used as a thermal adhesive between chips and heat sinks.

Re: Fake Caps in Xbox 360

Weird. Kind of makes me wonder if these capacitors are rebranded and licensed by Rubycon to use their name. I've never seen Rubycons use these bottom bungs before as they are notoriously used in low quality capacitors and fakes.

There was nothing wrong with the motherboard. I wanted to gift the Xbox to a friend and opened it up to clear out any dust and replace the thermal paste when I noticed that I must have accidentally gotten Arctic Silver thermal adhesive on one of the capacitors years ago when I put a heat sink on the Hana chip, which...

I decided to take one of the Rubycon capacitors out of a phat Xbox 360 with a Zephyr motherboard and noticed that all the Rubycon capacitors near the CPU were fake. The capacitors in question are Rubycon MFZ 680uf 6.3V and they all have a bullseye bottom, something not found in genuine Rubycon capacitors. None of them were leaking, they all have the K top, and the system has never been opened before. It appears Microsoft was using fake capacitors in the Xbox 360, or the Chinese facility where the console was manufactured in was using them and passing them off a genuine. Just thought I'd share...

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Re: Nippon 680uF 35v Capacitor

Really wish sellers wouldn't do this as it still shows up in the search results and could cause other sellers to raise their prices if it looks like this person has actually been able to sell them to 20 people at that price.

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello World! People familiar with C programming will get it.