Cheap 3000 Farad Ultracaps

[Taylor1992]

$30 for 1
$50 for 2
$200 for 10
Like 1/5th the price of the ones at the Maxwell homepage.

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G17930

[Sprocket]

I wouldn't mind having a few of those to play with, unfortunately despite stating that they are happy to ship all over the world, they then list where they will ship to, and Europe is not included - that a pretty large chunk of the "all over the world" methinks!   Besides, there's absolutely know way of knowing what state those caps are in, they're probably knackered!  There is also at least one other guy selling them on ebay, but for one hell of a lot more...

btw, would anyone know of a source of really cheap 1-100F caps that ship to europe?  I see that some Chinese manufacturers are selling them really cheaply, unfortunately they all have a 1000+ minimum order requirement...

[Hoxan]

I wouldn't mind having a few of those to play with, unfortunately despite stating that they are happy to ship all over the world, they then list where they will ship to, and Europe is not included - that a pretty large chunk of the "all over the world" methinks!   Besides, there's absolutely know way of knowing what state those caps are in, they're probably knackered!  There is also at least one other guy selling them on ebay, but for one hell of a lot more...

btw, would anyone know of a source of really cheap 1-100F caps that ship to europe?  I see that some Chinese manufacturers are selling them really cheaply, unfortunately they all have a 1000+ minimum order requirement...

i usually get my stuff from here:
http://export.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp?_DARGS=/jsp/home/exportHome.jsp_A&_DAV=en_EX_DIRECTEXP

[hidave]

Need large caps - buy from China, look around for the size, type that you need.

Use Choobuy.com if you don't speak chinese, they speak english but charge 10% commision.  Their local shipping is free is you spend about Y200, thats about US$20  or They charge $25 US for 2kg or 4.4 lb shipping.

Also look on Alibaba, there's 100's of suppliers, some will sell you a box off capacitor for 5% of retail price in US.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=5056115828

Or you can make your own easily. See captret thread.

[Sprocket]

i usually get my stuff from here:
http://export.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp?_DARGS=/jsp/home/exportHome.jsp_A&_DAV=en_EX_DIRECTEXP

Yeah, I'm aware of Farnell but the key word was "cheap" - Farnell are a rip-off imo!  For instance, I get most of my stuff from Conrad Electronics;

http://www.conrad.com/

- in a price-comparasion, I've bought 5F 2.5V caps from Conrad for 2 Euro each, whereas Farnell sell them for 10 sterling, over 5 times the price - crazy!

And you can get them way cheaper than Conrad, the best I could find on eBay is selling 5 * 50F caps for about $22 (call it $4 each, Conrad sells 60F for $12 (no 50's) and Farnell sell 50F for $70-80 - craazeeee...)   The Chinese prices (in bulk) blow the rest away though - $7-8 for 100F caps!  I just don't want (or need) 100 of them (smallest minimal requirement lot-size I've seen) never mind the 'standard 1000+ requirement...

But things are looking up, I was searching for the same about a year ago and I could find no Chinese company selling super-caps - there's quite a few now.  All we need is for smaller business' to start offering them in the 10's rather than the 100 and 1000 sizes...