[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[Michael E Caloroso]

Even worse than a smoking tantalum cap?  Those REEK.

MC

On 10/20/20, Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> wrote:
> But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.
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> Ben
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>> 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
>>> <mailto:jamoore84 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> CuriousMarc?
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell
>>> <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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