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PSA: Got stung by a bad capacitor batch from that online surplus place last month
I ordered a pack of 10 capacitors from a surplus site I'd used before for some monitor repairs. They looked fine but three out of the 10 bulged within two weeks of install in different units. One blew on a customer's monitor during a test run at my shop in Cleveland and it smelled like burnt plastic for days. The date codes were all from 2022 so they weren't old stock or anything weird. I checked the voltage ratings and they matched what I needed so I'm guessing it's just a bad production run they unloaded cheap. Anyone else get a batch from Allied Surplus that failed fast? Wondering if I should avoid them from now on.
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ryang6514d ago
Yeah man, I had the SAME problem with those. Switched to Nichicon and never looked back.
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Those cheap surplus dealers always dump bad runs fast. Had the same thing with a box of resistors years ago, half were dead out of the pack. It's like how grocery stores put the expired meat on the front of the shelf. Everyone is trying to unload their mistakes on us.
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