Re: Can this ordinary wet cap replace this FZ Cap?

Well, i thought that the K or any other format of vents were safety measures for caps that could swell and blow up because of gases inside created by the electrolyte. That said i concluded that since polymer caps are a sort of dry caps and wouldn't sweel, that would be the reason why they don't tend to have any vents or their tops. Still i also read that some wet caps could also miss vents on their tops, specially if older caps (like 70's caps, give or take).

It's a bit confusing at first :P

Re: Can this ordinary wet cap replace this FZ Cap?

Thank you for awnsering.

At first i concluded that this would be a regular wet cap because of the K vents, but later i read on some other place that there are some rare ocasions when capacitors can have K vents and still be a polymer cap instead of a wet one (beats me why) which confused me a bit.

Yes i know this cap isn't particulary good, and to make matters worse the case where the video card is in heats quite a bit, but since it is a HTPC it isn't turned on that frequently so i guess it will last for...

Hi there.

So, long story short:
My XFX 9600GT fan died and took the card with it. The computer power supply didn't even start because the card was dead shorted. After a while i found a shorted transistor on the card, and a few days later a FZ branded capacitor blow while the card was outside the computer, boxed away in it's original card box (go figure). I replaced both the transistor and the capacitor, and also the fan and the card worked again flawlessly.

My question is if i can replace this FZ 1000uF 6.3v cap with a regular wet cap with the same specs of course....

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