 Hey everybody, welcome back today to Retro Tech. I have a special episode now This one's not gonna have a lot of fancy editing and cool special effects We're gonna do today is hopefully a little bit more technical and helpful to you in case you want to make a Capacitor kit and this could be to service a special CRT to you or maybe you've got one of the cap lists from Resource where you wanted to build your own cap kit and Just make one from a list that's already compiled or maybe you found a part list in the back of a service manual But today I want to show you how I do this and this is just how me personally I do this and I've I get a lot of questions about cap kits Obviously working in these old CRTs and personally I do not offer cap kits Specifically because it's very difficult to predict the availability of parts even in capacitors So most of the time I have to go in and periodically just order from scratch a new cap kit list and today I'm working on a 14 N6U cap list here for a PVM and it's a Sony PVM So what I'd like to do is just show you how again I do this and hopefully this will help you Ordering capacitors. So we're just going to go through this and what I'd like to show you is a Website that I used to order parts from called Mauser.com There are plenty of other websites you can use but definitely use something that is good in the region that you live in and delivers Reliably and has reliable stock. So that's something always to consider. There are other companies and This is just one I've worked with for a long time Now when I come up here There is a keyword search bar at the top and what I like to do is kind of narrow that search down a little bit and Just type in aluminum electrolytic capacitors into that search bar and then it will pull up Mauser's handy search tool engine here and you can see that they have over 90,000 listed capacitors here that meet that specific Requirement now there are some things we're going to do to narrow that list down and I'm going to show you how to do that right now And one of the important things we need to do is obviously we've got our statistics here written I've handwritten this list and developed this kit. So these show the voltage and then the micro farads for the actual capacitance of the Capacitor and if you look here on this handy sheet We've got a lot of things we can choose from for filters that should help us pull this these capacitors up pretty quickly First off on the left. We've got manufacturer and then we've got products termination style capacitance voltage diameter length ESR and life and Those are pretty much everything that we need to know about our capacitor now one things that you will not know about your capacitors just based on Servicing an old machine most likely is your ESR. You will not know that you can get the voltage rating and the capacitance off the sides of the Capacitor itself as well as the temperature rating, which is another thing we will really consider when we're ordering So what I'd like to do is I like to narrow this list down first off under product I select general purpose electrolytic capacitor We're going to start with general purpose and radial because every single one of them that I'm going to be ordering today It's going to be from those two lists now our first capacitor on the list is a 160 volt by 33 micro farad big capacitor that has come out of the Deflection block on the monitor and it is actually One that we'll find a bunch of different sizes for so it's a good example of one We can hopefully match up here and what we're going to do is we're going to go with first the voltage rating which on this is a hundred and sixty volts DC and Then our capacitance will scroll down here and we're looking for 33 And so we've selected all those now our next thing is to do I like to go out here and click in stock and Then let's just go ahead and apply some filters and see what we have remaining It says we have 19 remaining so we can see kind of what our choices are now We've narrowed this down some and we do have some choices So the first thing I want to do is I want to select and I don't want to have anything That's 85 degrees Celsius and 125 is kind of probably overkill. So we don't want to worry about that either Let's apply that filter and it looks like we have 13 still remaining And let's see what we what other things we can do. We can also pick between our Brands here. So if we want to go with a niche icon and replace a niche icon with a niche icon That's what we have Originally in this kit is a niche icon or from the board So let's just apply the filters on there in stock and it should give us yes We have seven choices here of niche icons and you can tell where they'll all be different sizes and we're gonna need one that does have a larger size Than the other ones. So really our only choices is a five millimeter spacing and in a seven a half millimeter spacing So I'm gonna go with the seven and a half millimeter spacing and I'm sure it will work Let's see what we've got left here. That'll only give us one capacitor Right here So we're gonna go with adding this to the sheet because it's got a Bigger lead space and look at our life. It'll tell us right here at 10,000 hours With a 20 percent tolerance and it does give us a ripple current rating But we don't really know what the ripple current rating is of the one. We're actually pulling out of it so hopefully Most of the time that should be fine and these are within a tolerance, but If you do have that's a good reason to keep the old capacitor if you have an issue with the new one and It has a ripple current thing then you may need to consider that and so we're gonna add one of these to our Kit and what you want to see here is oh my goodness. Well So see this is what we've got to work with you see how there's only five that can ship immediately The problem with me just ordering one of these is since I'm a small customer These five could already be ordered and even though it says they're here this can mess up the whole kit So I need to find something with some more stock Because that one will not be restocked for a whole year. See how it says restocking spectancy then so That's going to take us back where we need to go back and this is a good example of what you have to work through Let's try to see what Panasonic has to offer if anything We have four capacitors we don't have lead spacing listen on here, let's see if that apply filter and Yeah, I'm not seeing the lead spacing on here, but let's see what we do have to choose from on These they are a little bit more stocked lead spacing. They're all five millimeter. So this time this is the kind of This is what you have to do is kind of make a compromise on these things now The size of the lead spacing I Know that this is probably going to disturb some people who are really into you know engineering and the exact Specifications on the size of here But you can just alter the size spacing To fit as long as it doesn't this the actual legs aren't going to have Ground out to anything on the chassis or another component and you can safely do that I've had to do that with other capacitors in the past and this one Looks like we're going to be in the same boat because we're going to be stuck with a five millimeter Lead spacing that's only really going to be the in stock option. And so we have different options here for Life expectancy we probably want to go with this a ec q 200 and the reason I want to pick this one is it's 85 cents But if I look over here, the life tolerance is the highest or the life expectancy is the highest now It does have a higher ripple current But that's you know, that's what your trade-off is you want to lower ripple current and lower hours or This this should not be a problem though. So we're going to try And add this particular capacitor to our kit and we'll just sit there and buy one That's how many is in this list and that will go into a shopping cart And I'll show you my shopping cart real quick so you can see how it just has the one part there and then What I like to do is I'll save a new project here But we'll do that once we get this whole cat kit built So let's go back now to this and we'll just go back and hit the back button a couple screens So we can get to the major list here where it shows pretty much everything and again We're going to have general purpose Radial and now we're going to select our next capacitor, which is a 160 volt 10 micro farad capacitor and this is just the way you work through this. I've got 160 volts selected there Let's go down here and see if we could find that 10 10 And then apply filters and just based on what I've selected already. It's narrowed it down to 11 capacitors This one is not as particular on the size It's just a general size capacitor and five millimeters should be plenty of spacing So we've got a five millimeter spacing available and a three and a half millimeter spacing available and that's really All that we've got available on this one And so if we go down here and it will tell us on the left what brands we have to choose from we look So I can we only got United Kemi Khan and Nishikon. So let's go ahead And we'll use Nishikon again since we know everybody knows Nishikon although United Kemi Khan is a good company also This one does have 400 almost 500 in stock 10 Capacitance 10 micro farads 160 volt DC 105 volt temperature Now this one only has a thousand hours of life, which is something to consider However, that is at the high 105 degree temperature. So that's quite a bit higher than if it were On there, but let's look at some others and see if there's any other availability that might have a higher life set life expectancy and scroll over here and See what it says for the life expectancy rating And this one down here is a 10,000 hour capacitance And we have 8,000. Let's see what we've got as far as availability This is low stock low stock this one right here is a funky size and this one right here is the highest capacitance and It is five millimeters. Okay, so let's try this one. Let's go ahead and we're gonna have just One of these in our cap kit also, so we'll add that by We've got two items in there and we're gonna continue shopping and this is kind of the process again and we're just gonna roll through here and Once I get the rest of this cap kit, you know put together and then I'm gonna come right back After this break. All right, welcome back. I've got my list compiled I've got all the parts ordered and double-checked and I wanted to show you first my shopping cart right here So let's look at that and you can see how it gives you some options here to print the page share export whatever But what we want to do is just count the capacitors now It does list down here 12 items, but we've got multiples on some of these one two Three so that's 15 plus three more 18 and that's how many we've got I did add two more Capacitors from the neckboard on to my list So that's a total of 18 capacitors for this kit, which that's kind of standard for most products You could have more maybe 30 or even down to as many as you know as little as one or two If you're just looking for a specific repair and only doing one part now. What's obviously the great Thing about doing this yourself. Well, you're gonna learn how to make these lists number one number two You could save a lot of money just by doing these cap kits on your own For example the cost on this one even with the shipping is going to be 1743 and then I'll have a little bit of taxes Throwing on top of that but for less than $20 you can get this full cap kit shipped to you But again, I cannot reiterate when you do this First off you want to double-check again that you're getting all your products you've got everything that you want and double-check on here the description that it matches what you need and What you want to do is also say double-check your availability right here where it says ships now ships now ships now if it's backordered And you accidentally got one that just went out of stock It will tell you right then that it's out of order. It's backorder now What I want to do here is I'm gonna make this into a list that I can save that way if I want to come back and review it Or compare it or share it with anybody You have to make an account for these kind of things But once you make your account on the website, which you can just go to their accounts page and make that It'll give this option to do this kind of thing You can see I've got a lot of kits in here that I've worked on for years I mean there's so many I've redone and things like that. So I'm gonna do is new projects enter the name and I'm gonna go pvm 14 and Six you kit so we'll save it and Now that kit is saved into my memory and if I come back and and or if I don't want to order this right now I can go back and I can share that kit or I can reopen that kit and just hit order and it'll Immediately process the order of this the only problem with Sharing and saving these old kits is like I said a lot of these products You can see where they could easily go out of stock and with the way Getting stock is now for any parts even capacitors like this It's so difficult these sharing these order sheets is almost unfortunately worthless besides Just as a guide kind of so that's why I don't share these lists usually, but this is how you make your own and So now we've got this done We've got this in our shopping cart and everything's ready to go and again All we'd have to do here is complete our options for shipping and check out and then that's really it That's all that you need to do now again the good thing about working through, you know, Mauser or Digi-key or any of these websites is you can go in and practice you can make these cap kits and just practice It's a you know, here's the caps that I recorded from my device It's could be a CRT. It could be a gaming console It could be really anything and as long as you record them the important stuff here And then again if you if you pull one and you're worried about the size pull it out and you can measure it But again, you might be stuck with something where you can only get a certain size like we were today on the capacitance for that capacitor We don't want to just not replace it because we can't find a perfect size match So sometimes you do have to you know, give or take a little bit and just watch that Sizes if you need to you know pay attention to that because a lot of these when you get into these General-purpose capacitance and capacitors. They're all going to be that five millimeter size around that for the most part and But it does list that for you. So Just to review some of the things you definitely want to make sure you got obviously you want to make sure you've got the right voltage and capacitance and then you want to make sure that you have the right Termination style. So that means is it does it have a negative and a positive end on it? and Most of them do but that's a general-purpose capacitor all these did but if you have a bipolar one You can go in here and select where you need a bipolar You need a bipolar Capacitor, so let's just I'll show you that example. See how it says on the product type right here in the middle of the page There's bipolar non-polar Electrolytic capacitors, that's how you find one of those if you need to replace it because there are those occasionally in these old devices where they're just Everything looks like a positive there is no marking for a negative because there's no negative end on the capacitor And it doesn't matter which way you install those because of the same polarity on either side But that is something that you definitely want to know on there So taking to consideration those tips the size and then also always try to increase the Temperature tolerance if possible. I try to always go with a 105 degree Celsius But do not be like hung up on the brand if you can find a brand like we did today where again I've got a mix of Panasonic Rubicon Nisha Khan and worth electronics a lot of you probably haven't heard of them, but They're another good brand. We've also got plenty of other brands here that are available like United Kimmy con Cornell doubler and Kemet, I mean there's a number of good quality capacitors right now and Again with stock issues. We're just gonna have to deal with Whatever we can really get at this point, but that's gonna be it for today's video I know the format was a little bit different and a little bit more technical So I don't really know how this is gonna do it for views and everything But if you enjoyed it, please let me know if you think that you have any questions about it Leave them below and me or somebody else in the community can try to help you out With an answer and just remember it doesn't you know There's no harm in just practicing building these sheets out and even if you found somebody that was a friend of yours that knows How to do this a little bit better and say hey, I'm learning can you mind reviewing my cap kit list for me? Here's a link to it. Tell me what you think and You know your friends, I'm sure they'll help you out and be glad to review your cap kit for you But you can do this save money and learn more and more and more and more about these electronics as we go Which is always great. So again, thanks for watching today I will see you all next time with some more retro content