[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[Oren Leavitt]

On 10/20/20 2:55 PM, Ben Stuyts wrote:
> But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.
>
> Ben
>
Smells like lutefisk
>
>> 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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>> 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
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