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Capacitor Manufacturers
I've only now discovered that Panasonic has discontinued manufacture of snap-in electrolytic capacitors.
Of the remaining manufacturers, which one(s) do you guys regard as making good capacitors? I found an equivalent-spec capacitor at Mouser made by United Chemi-Con -- what do you think of them? Thanks! |
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Not sure about United Chemi-Con, but I use 105 degree Nichicons; so far so good. The selection gets quite sparse above that temperature. Mouser stocks 608 of the snap-in types at this point.
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Panasonic obsolete types continue to be stocked in depth by both Digi-Key and Mouser - unless you're needing production quantities (in which case Panasonic WILL open up the line...), you should be good. Digi-Key's selection: https://www.digikey.com/products/en/...=0&pageSize=25 EPCOS is my second choice in snap-in capacitors - Panasonic and NiC Components for all others (Radial Lead and SMD). Production of types/series are single-sited for Panasonic and NiC, meaning not much variation, as compared to Nichicon, UCC, and Lelon. They produce in multiple sites, and some type/series have differences among the plants - they are using "lessons learned" from the Fukishima disaster, when Panasonic and some others had long lead times, from no power, reduced power, shipping issues and the like. Dual-siting helps reduce the impact, but led to quality problems, mostly minor electrical and physical characteristic variances.
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Brian USN RET (Avionics / Cal) CET- Consumer Repair and Avionics ('88) "Capacitor Cosmetologist since '79" When fuses go to work, they quit! |
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In particular, I was looking at 1200uF, 250V. |
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