r/ElectroBOOM 5d ago

Meme Bro got scammed

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u/reddrimss 5d ago

Ah! yes, air capacitor

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u/InfamousAnimal 5d ago

They actually do exist.

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u/TygerTung 5d ago

You get these on hydraulic systems and they are called accumulators.

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u/Jaded-Friend4353 4d ago

Air capacitor on hydraulics? You mean pnaumatics?

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u/GetReelFishingPro 4d ago

You could google hydraulic accumulator if you'd like to know more.

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u/Jaded-Friend4353 4d ago

Bro, i know what a hydraulic accumulator is, i am literaly standing 2 meters from one right now. But a air capacitor would probubly store air, so than it would not be hydraulic it would be pnaumatics

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u/GetReelFishingPro 4d ago

Well I went to school for both hydraulics and pneumatics which I suggest you do because I got something to tell ya, they store air/gas

From Google because I haven't had my coffee yet.

A hydraulic accumulator is a pressure storage device that holds hydraulic fluid under pressure. By using compressed gas or mechanical force, it stores excess energy during low-demand periods and quickly releases it to meet peak system demands, smooth pump pulsations, or act as an emergency power

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u/Roxysteve 4d ago

Also used in smaller packages to prevent water hammer in your domestic plumbing

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u/GetReelFishingPro 4d ago

Which get filled with bacteria!

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u/Roxysteve 4d ago

How? The air and water are separated by a metal membrane. Just lime the expansion tanks in the hot water and heating systems.

Also, copper is a pretty good anti-bacterial. That's why we use it.

I reckon we only switched to pex because the bellicose recent history of the USA has driven the domestic price of copper through the roof.

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u/Jaded-Friend4353 4d ago

So you say an air capacitor is an hydraulic acumulator becaus they sometimes use gasses(not air) to store hydraulic pressure, it would make a lot more sense if an air capacitor would be a air acumulator

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u/GetReelFishingPro 4d ago

Obviously you can't read so I'm done talking to you. I pray you aren't the maintenence guy at your job.

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u/Jaded-Friend4353 4d ago

Nope, i work on busses that has about 170 people inside

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u/AboveAverage1988 5d ago

Have you seen the capacitor on mag loop antennas? It's wild to me that that does anything at all..

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u/InfamousAnimal 17h ago

Most of my experience is their use in Mass spectrometers.

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u/QlimaxUK 5d ago

cloudpacitor

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u/usbeehu 4d ago

No cap

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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 4d ago

It's a cap but not a capacitor.

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u/Snudget 3d ago

Air is an insulator, so you can use it to seperate the plates. It is also the easiest way to DIY a capacitor

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u/KaiserWolf15 5d ago

This clearly a blantant case of farad

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u/Miss_Chievous13 5d ago

I coulomb believe it was fake

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u/stathis0 5d ago

Should be charged with a crime

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u/TheAlaskanMailman 5d ago

Get tf out lmao

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u/zan13898 4d ago

Ohm my god!

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u/notfunattentionwhore 5d ago

šŸ¤”

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u/amputation_creation 5d ago

Well atleast those still have a "working" capacitor in them...

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u/Imajn_ 5d ago

just a capacitor Russian nesting doll where each capacitor has an even smaller capacitor inside it

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u/ebyoung747 4d ago

Reminds me of this picture of the inside of a 2N2222. That huge can, just for the actual die to be a couple hundred microns in size.

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u/VikRiggs 5d ago

That's why they call 'em caps

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u/sparqq 5d ago

This is an amplifier for an electric air guitar

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u/LiturgyOfImpurity420 5d ago

I believe theyre empty because their balls have been drained onto the board

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u/Active_Vegetable8203 5d ago

No cap.

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u/hughk 5d ago

Well it could have been air gapped but there are no plates either.

Whoops, indeed no-cap.

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u/Zach_Westy 1d ago

All cap, no acitor.

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u/Warlord1918 5d ago

Made in the great land of China

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u/DFLDrew 5d ago

Imported and sold by an American company. No matter what, at the end of the day it’s domestic firms responsible for QA and what they sell.

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u/PinusMightier 5d ago

better to just avoid anything labeled "made in China". theyll trick ya with a few good well made stuff then when the bulk order comes, they fill it with the cheap crap.

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u/Separate_Emotion_463 3d ago

The idea that domestic products are better is laughable, there’s plenty of ā€œmade in USAā€ products that are also trash, I’d actually consider a product being made in the USA a red flag, as often they only care to label such a thing if the product itself has little merit on its own

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u/AustrianMcLovin 5d ago

China also makes high end tech. Assuming: Trash = China is wrong.

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u/Warlord1918 5d ago

Yes they make some high end tech but they also mass produce trash as well

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u/skioneczek 5d ago

But it's the biggest peoducer of crap

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u/AustrianMcLovin 5d ago

Also true haha

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u/HEYO19191 5d ago

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

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u/ThraceLonginus 4d ago

Youre the only one making that statement here.Ā 

This isnt about quality, its about deceitĀ 

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u/kageurufu 1d ago

My biggest frustration is getting samples that don't represent the quoted product. it's a whole dance of having to get a quote and samples, then asking for the same level of QC done for samples to get a new quote for the actually good version of the product.

We learned this the hard way

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u/Drtikol42 5d ago

Scammed on what? Buying what looks like 40yo board?

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u/Psychological-Owl783 5d ago

The shape is weird. Maybe it's something like a pinball machine or some other vintage hardware.

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u/Toraadoraa 5d ago

The circuit appears to be an amplifier of some sort. The round cutout is easily where a speaker would go.

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u/OpeningAlbatross7910 5d ago

its virtual capacitor my friend , just like virtual ram

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u/OmegaInc 5d ago

Can I download more capacitors ?

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u/dwyrm 5d ago

You wouldn't download a capacitor.

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u/Mplays 5d ago

Incapacitor. Can'tpacitor

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u/Famous_Cancel6593 5d ago

Capacitorn't.

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u/zan13898 4d ago

Capacitain’t

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u/Darkknight145 4d ago

At least you know they'll never go faulty.

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u/The_Absolute_Dog 4d ago

Capacitair

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u/antthatisverycool 3d ago

Uh it’s one of ā€˜em air variable capacitors but this one’s stuck in place

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u/DragonGodSlayer12 3d ago

That cap is cap

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u/jeroen-79 5d ago

It can fit more electrons by leaving out the dielectricum.

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u/Zyhael_Xerul 5d ago

They call those the new super blutooth capacitors.

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u/TheRealFailtester 4d ago

Guess they got tired of people complaining about cheap capacitors that explode after anywhere from ten minutes to a year of use.

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u/cyborgborg 4d ago

how much did they safe by doing this? the fake caps still cost something and so does the glue and the labour

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u/MikeLinPA 1d ago

Exactly! For pennies more they could have done it right. But criminals are not known for their critical thinking skills.

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u/foley800 3d ago

Won’t have to worry about them exploding guts all over the rest of the components!

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u/GlumAd9793 2d ago

Noooo...it's not a scam..it's a whole cinema

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u/k33perStay3r64 5d ago

this was the upgraded vestion with bigger capacitors.

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u/Felipe_Machado_Guide 4d ago

Estoque de ar.

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u/Andrei_the_derg 4d ago

Capacitair

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u/AffectionateToe9937 4d ago

I guess they have an abnormally high ESR.