Help identifying a mystery cap
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- LeftyStrat
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Help identifying a mystery cap
I have a kit of these caps, marked only 'Wima' on the container, but I can't seem to find anything online that looks like them. I'm trying to find out what their composition is. Sorry for the crappy cell phone photo.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
Have you called the place where you got the kit? They may know something about your mysterious capacitor.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
I picked it up at a yard sale many years ago. I suppose I could just give them a try in an amp. They are marked 600 volts.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
Well, I went to Mouser and plugged in Wima, 600 volts, and 0.22 uf. Only thing left was polypropylene. They look different. So perhaps these are no long made.
Checked ebay and no wima's that look like these.
Checked ebay and no wima's that look like these.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
Looks to me like a Xicon metalized polypropelene.
I have some here but i cannot get the macro to focus on it.
I have some here but i cannot get the macro to focus on it.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
That's a Xicon MPP ----- metalized polypropylene----- it is marked MPP on the cap itself------I don't know what it was doing in the Wima package, but it is definitely a Xicon MPP capacitor.
I'm using 220nF, 100nF, and 1uF Xicon MPP's in the current build on my bench.........................gldtp99
I'm using 220nF, 100nF, and 1uF Xicon MPP's in the current build on my bench.........................gldtp99
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
Thanks guys. The 'Wima' was hand written on the container, so maybe a mistake.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
I used those Xicon MPP in my DBM #39 hot rod plexi and we could not be happier, sold that one and building another and will definitely use Xicon caps again.
Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
Cheap generic caps. They work fine. No reason to be shy about using them.
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Re: Help identifying a mystery cap
Xicon. I like and use them often. No issues ever with them.
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