Can someone suggest a decent capacitor bulk kit in the UK?

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Soop

Joined Feb 10, 2022
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I'm tired of spending £2-3 at a time for a handful of caps and having to wait days for them to arrive. I'd really like to buy a big kit with halfway decent components, but the problem I have is that over the years I have accumulated a lot of the more common parts. It's when values like 2200uf, 27uf and 56uf crop up that I have to order those in.

Does a kit exist that contains a lot of less common values?
 

dl324

Joined Mar 30, 2015
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Does a kit exist that contains a lot of less common values?
I'm not a big fan of kits. If you could find one with less commonly used values, they're exactly that - less commonly used.

I prefer to buy at least 10 of any value that I don't have when I order. Over time, that builds up my stock of values not commonly used in my designs. Before counterfeiting became such a big problem on eBay, I used to buy new old stock in values I could use.

Alternatively, you could buy 10 each of a few extra values when you're ordering. I'd stock in a 1-2-5 sequence, e.g. 100uF, 220uF, 470uF, 1000uF, 2200uF, 4700uF, ...
 

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Soop

Joined Feb 10, 2022
21
I'm not a big fan of kits. If you could find one with less commonly used values, they're exactly that - less commonly used.

I prefer to buy at least 10 of any value that I don't have when I order. Over time, that builds up my stock of values not commonly used in my designs. Before counterfeiting became such a big problem on eBay, I used to buy new old stock in values I could use.

Alternatively, you could buy 10 each of a few extra values when you're ordering. I'd stock in a 1-2-5 sequence, e.g. 100uF, 220uF, 470uF, 1000uF, 2200uF, 4700uF, ...

That's not a bad idea. I didn't know counterfieting capacitors was a problem. You mean generic stuff made to look like panasonic or sanyo etc?
 

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Soop

Joined Feb 10, 2022
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Jon Chandler

Joined Jun 12, 2008
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I ordered from Tayda when my surface mount resistors and caps get low.

One great deal I've found there is terminal blocks. They have the "rising clamp" style which is much better than the type with a screw pressing on a flexible metal piece.... you have to find a "pokey thing" (technical term) to bend the tab so you can fit the wire in.
 

panic mode

Joined Oct 10, 2011
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while fraud and fake parts exist everywhere, that photo must be a prank.
nobody is putting premium brand product (in this case Rubycon) inside fake product.
if one is going to cheat, they will do so by using cheapest parts, not the top brands.
 

panic mode

Joined Oct 10, 2011
4,864
yeah, i see those fuzzy screen captures with no reference all over the internet. even EDN article like
https://www.edn.com/how-to-spot-counterfeit-passive-components/

which is apparently written by president of CTI.
all looks legit....

then you click on the link under his signature to www.cti-us.com and see how real online world is.

it certainly is possible that someone chose to put rubicon inside no-name cap. i am not denying that. but if someone was doing so to make profit, i am not sold. there are far cheaper non-name caps. also the weight would be wrong. if that is an actual fake, it is comical... if i was to make money on fake caps i could do so much better job.
 
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