Panasonic FC Dirt Cheap

[alfaudio]

Originally Posted by tomtt

might be a 'lost in translation' sort of thing ...


after all -

http://myworld.ebay.com/lovelyleila2008/

Item location:

‰·�B, Ÿ´�]�È, China

温州, 浙江省, China

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That particular place in China has been notorious for counterfaiting anything. Will never buy anything from there.

[DSP_Geek]

Originally Posted by DreadPirate

Just wanted to report that I received my caps from lovelyleila2008 ebay vendor and they appear fine. Took 2 weeks. I've tested for esr, consistent .02 ohm, the weight is about right, so is the cap and bung. [...]

If you want to know what value your caps are, slap a 1K resistor in parallel with them, charge them up to 10 volts, then remove the voltage and measure how long it takes the capacitor charge to drop to 3.7 volts. Multiply that by 1000 and there are your microfarads.

If that's too fast, use a 10K resistor and multiply the time by 100. Math available on request.

[fff0]

speaking from experience... even local chinese in China are awary of the local companies they deal with. take ur chance.

[brucegseidner]

I can't find it in the Elna catalog. Do they have color schemes for special projects or OEM's. Is this a discontinued model? Any ideas? Thanking all in advance.

http://www.hllye.cn/html/fm_transmit...roducts_id=137

[DreadPirate]

According to this panasonic link, different colors are a sign of possible counterfeit product. I'll see if I can get in touch with that panasonic group and see if they are interested in a sample. These look quite good, though, maybe even better than original! Tubeshunter on eBay also appears to have the exact same product, black 2200uF/50v with 32YV code on them.

http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/...ts-content.htm