RIFA EMI caps [WAS: Re: VT100 PSU smelling.]

2016-01-23 Thread Pontus
On 01/23/2016 01:26 AM, Tothwolf wrote: They can. The translucent yellow Rifa (now owned by Kemet) class X/Y safety capacitors in particular have a 100% failure rate and are on my replace-on-sight list. They usually begin to show visible signs of cracking in their outer casing before they

Re: RIFA EMI caps [WAS: Re: VT100 PSU smelling.]

2016-01-23 Thread Tothwolf
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 01/23/2016 02:40 PM, Pontus wrote: All I could find were new similar Kemet capacitors. Do you know if newer Kemet suffer from the same problem and I will regret buying them? I usually replace the Rifa capacitors with equivalent polyester safety