[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[Kenny Balys]

Old British capacitors smell like popcorn (as I found out bringing up
a long forgotten Acorn computer)

hmmmmm whats that delicious sme..... oh no! switch it off!!!


On 20.10.20 21:11 , drheqx wrote:
> That's hilarious and very interesting.
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 4:22 PM S Ridley <spridley1 at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>         <mailto: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
>>>             <mailto: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
>>>                 __