Capacitor brands? – Page 1

Vishay electrolytics are ex BC components / Philips / Mullard and Sprague which are high end. They bought them out. Also Vishay sell lots of milspec parts, think Dale RN series. Everything they kick out is extremely reliable over their working life, ridiculously long term availability (I can buy same PN’s that are 40 years old with manufacture dates of last year), tight specifications. One of the better manufacturers out there.

I always go for TDK/EPCOS, Vishay, Rubycon, Panasonic. Usually cheapest of those gets the business. It’s not worth cheaping out these days. If it’s twice the cost, it’s still nothing in small volumes.

Also never buy anything reputable from Aliexpress. Assured supply chains only like Farnell/Element 14, RS (UK), Digikey, Mouser etc. It’s actually cheaper and quicker for me to get new stuff from RS here in the UK delivered next day FOC than it is to wait for crap to arrive from aliexpress.

Kemet has been around for years. I had an HP power supply dated 1969 with good Kemet capacitors in it! Also milspec wet tantalum supplier etc.

I go for AVX for tants as you can pick up part used ex production reels off ebay for bugger all.