[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[S Ridley]

>  But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.

That fishy smell is normally a reliable warning of dying electrolytics.

A few months ago I wasted half an hour looking for a bad electrolytic, only
to find my colleague had had tinned mackerel for lunch and thrown the tin
in the bin by my bench!

Steve


On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 20:57, Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> wrote:

> But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 20 Oct 2020, at 12:01, tpuefke via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> wrote:
>
> let's not go there.
> it's a pun alluding to germanium i would have guessed, which is not
> un-clever.
> i can't see anything xenophobic about that and there's really no need to
> politicise it.
> there's lots of good and bad things to say about China and manufacturing
> practices, but i don't think this is the place for that discussion either.
>
> also, a lot of bad caps actually come from Taiwan, so i have learned.
> there you go.
>
> have a good one :)
> Tom
>
>
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, 20. October 2020 11:36, Miles Stevens <
> milesstevens89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So in this case, 'Chineseum' means what exactly? Is it a manufacturer?
>
> Just looking for an explaination that isn't quite xenophobic...
>
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 02:31, Jimmy Moore <jamoore84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> CuriousMarc?
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell
>>
>> His channel is awesome.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:59 AM drheqx <drheqx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Watched a video of a guy having to change every electrolytic cap in a
>>> behringer mixer because they were literally all bad in some way. Now I'm
>>> working on a samson 16 channel mixer. Upon opening it I see numerous
>>> electrolytic caps that are physically falling apart or with signs of
>>> getting ready to pop.
>>>
>>> I really hope that modern synths built by certain companies are not
>>> using these substandard caps. I'm now replacing hundreds of xyz caps with
>>> Panasonic.
>>>
>>> Mike
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