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I'm looking to stock up on capacitors, rather than purchasing them from over-priced local shops. Can anyone recommend any in particular? Small size would be nice, and of course decent quality (had a 25v cap blow up in a 9v pedal a while back ) Panasonic? WIMA? Nichicon? Nippon?

I really like the Panasonic ECQ-B or ECQ-V for general purpose caps. They're small and fairly uniform in size, and although the lead-straight-down pitch is 5mm you're not limited to that like you are with the short lead box caps. This seller has some bulk lots, I've bought off him a few times over the last couple of years and never had any problems.

Thank IvIark, I had been wondering about those. There's a local distributor who stocks them which is handy.

Does anyone have any suggestions for smaller sized electrolytics?

My suggestion is; don't. 10V smoothing caps just don't cut it in a 9v pedal, use 25v in case someone accidentally sticks an 18V supply looking for more headroom...

EITHER:

-Use Axial filter caps from the bottom to the top of your vero/PCB?

-design your layouts so that your radials have room to lie down flat

Rubycon MS7's!
These are the 4u7 ones and rated at 25V but still tiny. I think they're only 7mm x 8mm at 100uF:

STILL TOO TALL

Hides-His-Eyes wrote:My suggestion is; don't. 10V smoothing caps just don't cut it in a 9v pedal, use 25v in case someone accidentally sticks an 18V supply looking for more headroom

I'm definitely not looking for 10v caps.

The Nichicon MA 100uF 25v is only 5mm high, but the compromise is it's 8mm diameter. The SR series is 7mm high but still 8mm diameter.

Sorry, carry on ..

Nichicon KWs' are pretty cheap, small, and I have to say, they have a mojo factor.

Oh and WIMA makes the best film box caps you can get.