saabracer23
Super Member
Wanted an opinion from you all. I’m generally a no way, not worth buying parts from eBay as there are too many counterfeit parts, just buy from Mouser, Digikey, etc. I have most everything I need on hand anyways, except a few items. There seem to be a shortage of large screw terminal filter capacitors. I had to wait for months and months before I received the Nippon U36D 15,000uF 160V caps needed for a Phase Linear 700 I was working on.
Well I’m in the same boat again, I’m working on a Kenwood 700M for my father and I told him that unfortunately the caps are unavailable at the moment. I have them on order, but there is a shortage everywhere.
Last night he sent me an eBay link with the particular caps I’m looking to use and he said it was safe since the guy has 100% positive feedback. This guy or gal has over 30k feedback and I look at their other items they have listed, and they have dozens and dozens of all types of these larger caps used as mains filters.
I don’t understand how this could be legit, how could this person have dozens and dozens of all of these large capacitors when none of the major vendors can seem to get their hands on them? I mean several brands and values that all online vendors say a minimum of 26 week lead time or expected delivery late ‘22. The only explanations I can come up with is that they are buying fakes in high quantity or they cleaned out the online vendors and sat on their goods knowing a shortage was coming.
Thoughts?
Would you buy?
Dan
Well I’m in the same boat again, I’m working on a Kenwood 700M for my father and I told him that unfortunately the caps are unavailable at the moment. I have them on order, but there is a shortage everywhere.
Last night he sent me an eBay link with the particular caps I’m looking to use and he said it was safe since the guy has 100% positive feedback. This guy or gal has over 30k feedback and I look at their other items they have listed, and they have dozens and dozens of all types of these larger caps used as mains filters.
I don’t understand how this could be legit, how could this person have dozens and dozens of all of these large capacitors when none of the major vendors can seem to get their hands on them? I mean several brands and values that all online vendors say a minimum of 26 week lead time or expected delivery late ‘22. The only explanations I can come up with is that they are buying fakes in high quantity or they cleaned out the online vendors and sat on their goods knowing a shortage was coming.
Thoughts?
Would you buy?
Dan
