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kalel:
Searching for "Genuine" on Aliexpress, I ran into a few names:

Cnikesin
Ruby
Nichicon
Bolsa
Nzluliyuan
JAmiCON
Soshin
RIFA
KEEZEL
NESSCAP

I am sure there are many others. I did hear about Nichicon but there are tons of other brands out there, and some are relatively expensive. Which are good?

Normally I don't need quality capacitors for simple circuits/learning so I'm just curious for reference.
Bashstreet:
Never buy capacitors from unreliable sources as there are huge market for fakes.

Ali express is not reliable source of goods.

There are many good capacitor brands.

Not in particular order..

Rubycon
Chemi-Con
Nichicon
Panasonic

Any of those will do and can be trusted (as brand)

I personally prefer Rubycon but for reasons of availability do sometimes use Panasonic/nichicon.

There are also many other ok brands but i prefer the above.
wraper:
Don't ever buy capacitors from China. Especially top brands from the post above. In addition to those there are:

Suncon (former Sanyo)
TDK (former Epcos)
Kemet
Vishay
Cornell Dubilier - CDE
ELNA

As well there are cheaper but still decent capacitors as:

SAMXON
Jamicon
Lelon
Bashstreet:

--- Quote from: wraper on November 21, 2017, 07:03:57 pm ---Don't ever buy capacitors from China. Especially top brands from the post above. In addition to those there are:

Suncon (former Sanyo)
Kemet (former Epcos)
Vishay
Cornell Dubilier - CDE

As well there are cheaper but still decent capacitors as:

SAMXON
Jamicon
Lelon

--- End quote ---

Vishay and Kemet are not "premium" grade electrolytic manufacturers. Kemet makes fine poly's and Vishay makes fine ceramic caps.

I would not recommend ether as first choice for Electrolytics.

Cornell Dubilier makes good very large capacity electrolytics but is not preferable in my opinion in small values.

Point is if you can get superior caps there is no point use second best (unless one has availability issues)
nanofrog:
FWIW, Mallory made some great aluminum electrolytic capacitors for PSU/UPS types of applications. Fresh units are under the CDE label as Mallory became Cornell Dublier.

Might be helpful if you manage to locate NOS Mallory capacitors.
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