[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[drheqx]

Lol. I wonder why? Did they use butter as the electrolyte?


On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 5:25 PM Kenny Balys <kenny at beatkamp.com> wrote:

>
> 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
> >>>                 __
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