WIMA caps

[deadman1967]

I was curious about WIMA capacitors. I noticed that Wangs amplifiers use them.I recently bought a Wangs amp and I love it. Can you buy them in us.I got mine in Australia it is a JCM 800 clone and it sounds exactly like my real one. I recently moved to America and I'm looking for more. They use WIMA caps exclusively. I heard you can only find those in amps costing two and three thousand Wangs JCM 800 clones are only $800.I am going to check myinfinitemusic. I heard they carry them in Denver Colorado but I'm not sure sure

 

[Anonymous]

I was curious about WIMA capacitors. I noticed that Wangs amplifiers use them.I recently bought a Wangs amp and I love it. Can you buy them in us.I got mine in Australia it is a JCM 800 clone and it sounds exactly like my real one. I recently moved to America and I'm looking for more. They use WIMA caps exclusively. I heard you can only find those in amps costing two and three thousand Wangs JCM 800 clones are only $800.I am going to check myinfinitemusic. I heard they carry them in Denver Colorado but I'm not sure sure

I use WIMA caps all over the place in my Henning Amps Cherry Bomb. They are not cheap for sure, but they work great in my amps. Here they are in my amp:

You can get just about any of the WIMA caps you'd need at mouser.com at excellent prices. That is where I get all mine.

Steve

 

[MerlynMetal]

WIMA caps are of very good quality, I would say of better quality than needed for a guitar amp. I'm also using them all the time. Many guitar amp manufacturers like Bogner, Diezel, Engl etc. are using them, even HiFi companies like McIntosh for example.
MKP4 and MKP10 are polypropylene, MKS4 are polyester. You can use the FKP2 standard series as tone caps.

 

[BSRIAudio]

Wima makes excellent caps available at plenty of US parts suppliers. My only qualm with them has been inconsistent lead spacing but that's not uncommon with box caps in general.

 

[MerlynMetal]

They would have the same value/voltage cap with two different spacings like 10 and 15 mm for example but this is indicated in the part number code.

 

[BSRIAudio]

They would have the same value/voltage cap with two different spacings like 10 and 15 mm for example but this is indicated in the part number code.

Yeah they offered a ton of different parts. I had problems with parts out of the same bag not fitting PCBs with tight tolerances in the pad spacing. One would sit properly on the board and the next wouldn't because the leads were a mm narrower.

 

[bananaladonpcp]

My diezel is loaded with them

 

[Anonymous]

They would have the same value/voltage cap with two different spacings like 10 and 15 mm for example but this is indicated in the part number code.

Yeah they offered a ton of different parts. I had problems with parts out of the same bag not fitting PCBs with tight tolerances in the pad spacing. One would sit properly on the board and the next wouldn't because the leads were a mm narrower.

Huh... never have this problem. As long as I order the right part for the spacing, the WIMA caps I get always fit my PCBs...

Steve

 

[BSRIAudio]

They would have the same value/voltage cap with two different spacings like 10 and 15 mm for example but this is indicated in the part number code.

Yeah they offered a ton of different parts. I had problems with parts out of the same bag not fitting PCBs with tight tolerances in the pad spacing. One would sit properly on the board and the next wouldn't because the leads were a mm narrower.

Huh... never have this problem. As long as I order the right part for the spacing, the WIMA caps I get always fit my PCBs...

Steve

This was around 2007-2008 or so. Its quite possible things have changed since then.

 

[Anonymous]

They would have the same value/voltage cap with two different spacings like 10 and 15 mm for example but this is indicated in the part number code.

Yeah they offered a ton of different parts. I had problems with parts out of the same bag not fitting PCBs with tight tolerances in the pad spacing. One would sit properly on the board and the next wouldn't because the leads were a mm narrower.

Huh... never have this problem. As long as I order the right part for the spacing, the WIMA caps I get always fit my PCBs...

Steve

This was around 2007-2008 or so. Its quite possible things have changed since then.

Could be - I didn't start using them until 2012 or so...

Steve

 

[guitarslinger]

Most expensive amps have them. I'm a fan. They look cool too.