Just Radios

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

My last buy in January came to just under 40 dollars, and I got 100 .082's and about 60 (low voltage, 25/35/50V) Electrolytics - all Panasonic FR series - my favorite FC and FM types are getting harder to find in stock.

Next up on my plate is my brother's Zenith Porthole combo that will see almost all Panasonics - I still have a few hundred older Orange Drops to use. I may be getting ahead of things - I haven't checked the CRT yet....

YMMV, but I'm not a fan of those no-name cheap caps.

What the heck are you using such a high quantity of .082's in? That's a really odd value. Just curious.....

As far as quality of the cap, I'm not convinced that it's anything more than a perception thing. Capacitor technology has been evolving for the last hundred years or so, and I'd be interested to know what makes one cap better than another here in the modern world. As in, cap A can do this while cap B can't. Perhaps for industrial applications or things that we'll never see in what we repair. Mouser has specs ad nauseum to this effect, but I can't see any real-world difference in TV and radio applications.

I've been in the auto parts industry for 27 years. Probably sold 100,000 brake rotors in my life. I'll be celebrating my 20th anniversary as an Acura dealership employee in October. I've sold every kind of brake rotor there is. In a real world application, I've never seen one last significantly longer than another. Of course people will argue this, but that's my experience, and anything different is based more on perception than anything else.....or other factors such as quality of the brake pads used or lack of lubrication on the caliper slides. Cheap ones, OEM ones, it's all metal. Pads, huge difference.

To stay on track though, I don't wanna argue about that point in this thread, we can do that in another if anyone really wants to

Now I'm not *pro* one cap versus another. I'm all for being convinced otherwise, and I'm not taking a hard line stance on the issue. I just haven't seen any reason not to use any specific "brand" of cap.