Help finding a replacement capacitor.

Vince · 1 Feb 2011 at 14:41

In the office today and a power supply for a legacy peice of kit has failed. Stripped the supply down and have found my faulty component so went to a well known highstreet store that sells components and it appears that they don't stock the correct capacitor.

Could anybody point me in the direction of a replacement cap... pic below.

Vince · 1 Feb 2011 at 14:46

I did mate but there are several similar caps which have slightly different specs over the standard 400v 150uf 105oc. My question is does it matter what cap as long as it meets these standard specs?

Edit: model is TAICON and there is something on there which states 0433(M) - My google foo is clearly weak today as I get nothing....

Vince · 1 Feb 2011 at 15:07

how does this one look? I am working with fine space constraints and the panasonic above is 25mm wide but I only have 22mm of space to work with.

The current one is less than 20mm (looks like 18mm).

lol thanks for the forum link... gonna take a look.

Mods if I have broken any rules linking to the site above please accept my appologies and delete.

Vince · 1 Feb 2011 at 15:34

Awesome... I have one being delivered to me tonight so will give it a bash. Must admit it might be time to replace the kit but if I can squeeze a few more hours from it all will be good

Forgot to mention that in the end I called a buddy who works for an industrial electrical firm (hence the evening delivery). Will update on my progress.

Vince · 1 Feb 2011 at 15:45

MuttsNutts said:
One.... Just one... It may be worth getting two or more just incase they pop aswell if so there an underline problem...... Always the case with CAPS.

Good Luck

I don't think it actually popped, it appears that the leg simply corroded away at the join to the cap, this is lucky really as I have now used the spare metal from the leg to repair a seperate part of the supply which I accidently broke when dissasembling... For some reason there is a huge sheet of copper spanning the entire top of the supply connecting one side of the pcb to the other for which I accidently broke a mount. The old leg was trimmed down and soldered into position as the new mount.

Happy days.

Vince · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:35

So a friend of mine delivered the components last night and i spent ten minutes and soldered them into place.

New caps are slightly longer but overall a job well done

... thanks for the help guys:

And the massive ammounts of glue is apparantly a hp standard, every component was pretty much caked in it.