Thread: Capacitor Identification Help

Out of curiosity, why do you need to replace them?

Well, I was having a few Issues with my audio periphial..... Whenever I Enabled channel 1, The channel would spike uncontrollably. The whole time I was Clipping, It's like a resistor or transitor went out.... but at the same time it could be a cap that lost all of it's resistance as well.... Also on my Line outs that are used for the monitors, Only 1 monitor worked, and 1 Trs worked....... Pretty much the whole 1st channel crapped out on me.... Anyhow, I opened up my unit, and the 1st thing I realized Is that The capacitors being implemented were cheapo "G-LUXON" Capacitors!!! I was like Wtf?? This Is what I'm recording my Audio through? Also While having the thing I decided I should review all the components that were being used in this thing.. So I did, I found many components that were being used to be Obsolete, Such as my Optocoupler and Inverters, etc I also found out that the Opamps were really cheap.

I went and replaced all of the regular caps with Elna Silmic Audio capacitors and whatever cap I couldnt find in Elna, I replaced with Nichion Kz series audio caps....

There are so many of the SMD chip style caps on the motherboard of my phy, but I could only find SMD chip stlye caps made for a "General Purpous" applications..... Well my Audio is still traveling through these caps, and that sucks..... So I am actually kind of modifiying some Rubycon capacitors that I can Implement in a surface mount situation.....

I tried to round up as many used Rubycon and Nichion caps that I could find off my spare electronics here at the house and use them.... When It comes to Audio applications Electrolitic caps tend to sound alot better when they have gone through a certian amout of "Burn through time" ......

Thats why I replaced my caps..... I have not dealt a whole lot with smd stlyle caps to know the values, so I was asking if anybody knew, because on my modified SMD caps I want to make shure I am in the right ball park for my replacment canadits.....

So there ya have it!