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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: atferrari on February 19, 2015, 11:55:22 pm

Title: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: atferrari on February 19, 2015, 11:55:22 pm
This morning I spent one full hour using the knowledge acquired in this video:

http://youtu.be/115erzCCxgE (http://youtu.be/115erzCCxgE) Hope is correct now.

I checked a big bunch of caps, and, when coming to those collected after disassembling uncountable boards, there was one branded Capxon, sporting the highest ESR in this session: almost 6 ohms.  :palm: Sure I heard of than brand before...!

Let's say that one third of my caps were discarded and I feel better. Thanks Alan.  :-+

Back to current sources now.
Title: Re: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: miguelvp on February 20, 2015, 04:00:57 am
For the future don't end a link with a period because it becomes part of the link and people can't click on it.
Also if you use the full url with http, it will embed the video in the post.

#135: Measure Capacitor ESR with an Oscilloscope and Function Generator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=115erzCCxgE#ws)
Title: Re: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: atferrari on February 20, 2015, 09:15:16 am
Also if you use the full url with http, it will embed the video in the post.

#135: Measure Capacitor ESR with an Oscilloscope and Function Generator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=115erzCCxgE#ws)

Hola miguel,

Period is gone now. Gracias.

I use the "Insert hyperlink" function and I get what you see below. ?? :-//

http://youtu.be/115erzCCxgE (http://youtu.be/115erzCCxgE)
Title: Re: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: tautech on February 20, 2015, 09:28:38 am
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I use the "Insert hyperlink" function and I get what you see below. ?? :-//

Easy mistake to make, you just captured a period(full stop) some how.
You have it correct now.  :-+
Title: Re: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: GreyWoolfe on February 20, 2015, 01:38:00 pm
If you look on www.badcaps.com (http://www.badcaps.com) you will find plenty about Capxon (Crapxon) capacitors.  Dell did an ugly dance about 7-8 years ago with them appearing on motherboards, in our case-Optiplex GX270, and in 15" LCD monitors.  My company had over 2,000 of the workstations and monitors deployed and Dell paid the company to replace every motherboard and extended the warranty free for an extra year.  The monitors didn't start to fail until after the extended warranty was out, so we were fixing them in house.  No one was amused over that one.
Title: Re: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: atferrari on February 20, 2015, 03:45:30 pm
If you look on www.badcaps.com (http://www.badcaps.com) you will find plenty about Capxon (Crapxon) capacitors.  Dell did an ugly dance about 7-8 years ago with them appearing on motherboards, in our case-Optiplex GX270, and in 15" LCD monitors.  My company had over 2,000 of the workstations and monitors deployed and Dell paid the company to replace every motherboard and extended the warranty free for an extra year.  The monitors didn't start to fail until after the extended warranty was out, so we were fixing them in house.  No one was amused over that one.

Yes, the Capxon brand on it, rang a bell.
Title: Re: W2AEW's video and Capxon cap
Post by: w2aew on February 20, 2015, 10:59:29 pm
If you look on www.badcaps.com (http://www.badcaps.com) you will find plenty about Capxon (Crapxon) capacitors.  Dell did an ugly dance about 7-8 years ago with them appearing on motherboards, in our case-Optiplex GX270, and in 15" LCD monitors.  My company had over 2,000 of the workstations and monitors deployed and Dell paid the company to replace every motherboard and extended the warranty free for an extra year.  The monitors didn't start to fail until after the extended warranty was out, so we were fixing them in house.  No one was amused over that one.

Yes, the Capxon brand on it, rang a bell.

I'm glad to hear my video helped you out!