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Post #12 by Elfen
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 14 Oct 2014 - 14:47
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/how-to-spot-a-counterfeit-capacitor.371/
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Its worse when the caps do blow!

Since I buy so-called name-brand caps, I bought a few SMD/SMT ceramics to test a recapping with and the LCIIIs I got I did with Black Tantalums and Ceramics. It now how as interesting look to it. X^D

But in the case of the SMD/SMT-MLCC Ceramic Caps, there is no label to distinguish them by name-brand or rating unless I look at the package from which they came from. They were Kemet caps, which are a bit more expensive than the other companies, but I believe worth it. But there were no name-brand or rating written anywhere on the caps. I could see here counterfeiting to be more rampant as there are no labels to distinguish any of them.

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