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Very informative. Needless to say that most "brand" capacitors sold online from non reputable vendors are relabeled knock offs that would exhibit inferior chara
by squarefoot 3y ago
Very informative. Needless to say that most "brand" capacitors sold online from non reputable vendors are relabeled knock offs that would exhibit inferior characteristics and last a lot less than the real ones. There's no way you can buy a genuine Nippon Chemicon or Panasonic capacitor on Aliexpress, but beware also of unknown sellers on Amazon and Ebay. Always go to reputable vendors (RS, Mouser, TME, Farnell, etc) to be 100% safe. The cost of repairing a device that failed because of bad capacitors is always higher than the difference in price of the real capacitors.
- londons_explore 3y agoKnock-offs tend to not pay for the patent licensing, but apart from that both reliability and performance seems to match in my experience. I still wouldn't use them, but simply because if they do explode in my customers hands, then my chance of suing some noname brand for damages is low.