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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2018, 08:08:07 am ---Getting warm is not really a problem. Anything from this era kicks off the heat well.
Small silver ones are Vishay/BC components electrolytics. Big ones look like Nippon Chemi-con or Nichicons or Panasonics. Hard to tell.
The small ones are complete bastards. They have no vents and tend to explode violently. Fortunately I've never seen one actually explode other than when I did it on purpose. Nor have I seen one leak.
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Oh, so they are good makes, in that case and given the low usage of this, I don't think I will recap it, at least not for moment. I'm really pleased with it, going to replace the backup batteries today as its not retaining settings. In this case it's 2 x AAs and are used saving front panel settings, like focus etc etc as well as saved digital scans.
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 14, 2018, 08:12:22 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 14, 2018, 07:51:17 am ---... because of the orientation of the caps I can't see what make they are.
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Nippon Chemi-con. The oval negative markers and the little horizontal rectangles (actually supposed to be the Nippon Chemi-con shield I believe) are diagnostic. Once upon a time those would have been Philips (Mullard) branded.
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Yes, I was expecting to see lots of own brand parts being used but that's not the case I think.
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bd139:
You can still get the Mullard/Philips ones now. Philips bought Mullard and then spun the components division off as BC Components. Then Vishay bought that and still sell them today. Much improved since the short-o-matic axial mullard/philips wankers. They're pretty good now. Got a few lying around. Different shade of blue now :D
Your scope was late Philips era; they branched out a bit then as they had sold off most of their component divisions.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2018, 08:42:06 am ---You can still get the Mullard/Philips ones now. Philips bought Mullard and then spun the components division off as BC Components. Then Vishay bought that and still sell them today. Much improved since the short-o-matic axial mullard/philips wankers. They're pretty good now. Got a few lying around. Different shade of blue now :D
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Time was when the Vishay brand was automatically assumed to mean high quality components.
If they've borged so many lower quality brands/plants/people, it does make it more difficult to unthinkingly recommend Vishay. I think the term is "brand dilution".
bd139:
Yes agree there. I tend to read through them now. Vishay-Dale = yes. Vishay-Sprague = yes. Vishay-BC = yes. Vishay-wun-hung-lo = no.
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