Hey,
I've recently been trying to purchase some caps for a project of mine. Normally I go searching various suppliers like Mouser, Digikey and Farnell to try and find some items with acceptable performance and price. Most caps seem rather expensive these days, but there is one brand that stands out because it is much cheaper than the rest -
Elite. This brand of caps is apparently from
Chinsan Electronic Industrial, Taiwan, and the store that I've found selling them was TME, an european reseller.
https://www.tme.eu/en/katalog/tht-low-imped-electrolytic-capacitors_100264/I searched the website for
470uF, 50V low-esr electrolytic caps. Most of them sell for about 1 EUR a piece, but the elite one is just 20 cents. The same applies for larger quantities i.e. most 100pcs orders go for 30 to 50 cents per cap while the Elite brand sells for about 16 cents each. Other cap sizes/voltages tell a similar story. They're cheapest of the bunch, but you know what they say... you get what you pay for. Also, all the EEVblog Youtube videos where Dave goes wah wah wah whenever he finds some exotic cap brand in a teardown vid have made me skeptical.
So I was wondering, if anyone knows this brand and can maybe vouch for the quality? I'm not saying the brand is bad, they're just unusually cheap.
Regards!
EDIT: Here's the 470uF Elite cap link:
https://www.tme.eu/en/details/ed1h471mnn1220/tht-low-imped-electrolytic-capacitors/elite/
They are OK, Dell uses them almost everywhere.
A bit of a generalisation, but stuff manufactured in Taiwan is normally good quality. They are more high-tech than mainland China.
Alight, thanks for the info.
I'm buying.