[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[drheqx]

That's hilarious and very interesting.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 4:22 PM S Ridley <spridley1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  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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