anybody use these 'lytics?

[eniam rognab]

i just wanna thank you all for your replies, lots of good info! i will get some data on these today if anyone is interested

[steveneddy]

When I'm feeling cheap I buy caps sold by Weber.

I don't think China has anything on Weber as far as cheap parts go.

lol

[eniam rognab]

so, tested them all with a capacitance/ESR meter along with a variety of 450v caps: atoms, rubycon, IC, xicon for meter reference

the capacitance checks out on most all of them, aside from the atoms which all read above 45uf with a nominal of 30....

ESR readings
Atoms: 1.7-2 ohms
Rubycon: 1.6-3.1 ohms
IC: 3.5 ohms
xicon: 1.6-2.3 ohms
Elum: .68-1.8 ohms

all of the Elum 33uf tested at the .68 ohm mark. these were the lowest values recorded from probably the cheapest caps! looking pretty good by these numbers. still need to charge them up to 400v though...

[Phil_S]

When I'm feeling cheap I buy caps sold by Weber.

I don't think China has anything on Weber as far as cheap parts go.

IMO, the big difference, and this is important, is that when you find you got counterfeits from China, who will you go to for recourse? I'd like to think that Weber will stand behind what it sells and the price differential is trivial between the two.

[Richie]

Awhile back I was busy with my second most favorite waste of time, scanning Audio Asylum, when I found this:

http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/tubed ... 16991.html

which led me right back to my first most favorite xx.., pastime, and a real eye-opener of a topic I recommend to one and all.

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=15

I've never been attracted to buy capacitors on flea-bay. Stick with reliable distributors. I'll count ApexJr among them.

Ebay is ok, if you know the store. JEA capacitors.. I buy some stuff from Debco in Columbus Oh. Met them through a ham fest. Quite a few places that have good caps. I have been finding a lot of the IC caps leaking in many of the fender repairs. Usually look right around where he lead comes out. Buying caps from Just radios,mainly because the caps are good,and they are good to deal with. Price is good too. But mostly the values are more correct. Those links posted,, yep rubycon I don't believe has an axial cap for years. And that was a big stink on them loading the radial inside the axial.

[Cliff Schecht]

Richie I know what leaky IC caps you are talking about and I think Fender bought a bad bunch or perhaps even a counterfeit bunch of caps. Every single IC cap I've ever seen has the logo in italics like "IC" and not just "IC" as I've seen consistently on those bad Fender caps. They're (the ones in those Fender's) are the only one's I've seen them fail like that.

I don't want to sound like too much of a fanboy, TBH I'm not that attached to IC over any other brand (as long as I know what I'm using is reliable). Most anything you get from CE is at least of passable quality and IC just happens to be the brand that makes decent quality inexpensive electrolytics so I use them often. More often than not capacitors fail because of bad circuit design and not because the part is faulty; they're tested at the factory and QC does a good job of weeding out the bad parts quickly.

[menger66]

I like the MIEC caps ive never had one pop, the only caps i've seen blow up were sprague atom and i dont use them that often because they cost to much ive had 2 of them blow wading all over the place, I also like the tech caps but there costly also, I like jj cap cans also mark

[steveneddy]

When I'm feeling cheap I buy caps sold by Weber.

I don't think China has anything on Weber as far as cheap parts go.

IMO, the big difference, and this is important, is that when you find you got counterfeits from China, who will you go to for recourse? I'd like to think that Weber will stand behind what it sells and the price differential is trivial between the two.

Unfortunately Phil - that was not my experience with them in the past.

Unfortunate, indeed.

[Phil_S]

Unfortunately Phil - that was not my experience with them in the past.

Unfortunate, indeed.

Hmmm....I wonder if things just aren't the same since Ted Sr. died. It's a shame.

[Cliff Schecht]

Unfortunately Phil - that was not my experience with them in the past.

Unfortunate, indeed.

Hmmm....I wonder if things just aren't the same since Ted Sr. died. It's a shame.

That's sort of what I've heard. I hear a lot of both good and bad about them but have no personal experience, I try to stick with CE/AES and Mouser (Mag Inc for transformers) and can hit up my speaker reconing guy for good deals on old speakers. Not sure what else Weber offers that others don't but I've never needed to use them as of yet..