Re: How do Atom Computer Ignition modules work?

[legendre]

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Very interesting about fake transistors.

True story.

A few years back, a friend who built specialty guitar amps bought a lot of "100uF / 450V Nichicon" caps off eBay. When they arrived, something was obviously wrong. You know what a typical aluminum electrolytic cap looks like, right? An aluminum can, with a rubber gas seal crimped into one end.

But these caps had a rubber seal on +both+ ends, like you’d see on a non-polar electrolytic. So, get this..

I open one up, and the can is just that.. a hollow can that has a used-pull 360V 100uF no-name Chinese cap inside. The short leads had new, full-length leads tack-welded onto them, and then the whole thing shoved into the can, sealed with two rubber seals and finished with a Nichicon shrink label over it.

Seriously. And apparently someone had a way to +make money+ on this!