Capacitors
Spare part: Capacitor
Synth-Parts offers a wide range of high quality audio capacitors as spare parts. Capacitors are important electronic components in your electronic musical instrument. A capacitor is a passive electrical component that has the ability to store electrical charges for a short time, and then release them again. This is achieved by the special structure, which varies depending on the intended use.
In your electric pianos, synthesizers, samplers, drum computers, keyboards, organs, and mixing consoles there are many capacitors with different tasks in different places. The correct operation of your device often depends on their proper functioning. But also the sound characteristics are determined, among other things, by the quality of the capacitors used.
Basically, it can be stated that, for example, the quality of a sound filter is directly related to the quality of the capacitors used.
Synth-parts.com offers only Nichicon capacitors
In our workshop as well as in the offer of our online store we exclusively offer high-quality audio capacitors of the Japanese manufacturer Nichicon. This company Nichicon, founded in 1950 in Japan, can look back on a long experience in capacitor building, which is probably the reason why it is the undisputed leader in the field of manufacturing high-quality audio capacitors.
Replacement and repair
Capacitors may be subject to high temperature fluctuations as a result of the equipment being switched on and off, causing them to age sometimes faster, sometimes less quickly. These cause the component's case to become brittle, leading to outgassing of the contents, and consequent failure of the capacitor. A capacitor can also burst and thus lose its function. It is also associated with a typical odor, as well as a certain danger to the device.
In both cases, the replacement of the defective component is the best option to restore the functionality of the device.
But even if a repair on another component of your electric piano, synthesizer or sampler is pending, the replacement of the capacitors is a proven means to elicit many more years of playing pleasure from your vintage device, especially with old devices.
The so-called "recapping" can be carried out professionally and expertly in our specialist workshop. Well-trained specialists and high-quality workshop equipment enable us to carry out the necessary measures on almost any instrument.
Make an appointment with our workshop so that we can replace the capacitors in your musical instrument.
The differences in the series of Nichicon Audio capacitors |
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| Series | Application / Quality | Running time | Temperature | Diameter | Height |
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| KA | High Grade Audio | 2.000 | 105°C | slim | large |
| KW | Standard Grade Audio | 2.000 | 85°C | medium | medium |
| FG | High Grade Audio | 1.000 | 85°C | large | large |
| FW | Standard Grade Audio | 2.000 | 85°C | small | small |
| ES | Bipolar: Standard Grade Audio | 1.000 | 85°C | small | small |
| DB | Bipolar: für Frequenzweichen | 1.000 | 85°C | small | small |