Who invented the cap kit?

Sorry I got home too late. I knew the answer to this one. +1 Zanen. Can't believe that was over 30 years and 100lbs ago.
 
I invented the cap kit. I also invented the internet and the peanut butter and jelly sandwich and whiteout.
 
as always, YMMV.

i have plenty of games i capped with Bob's kits and so far i've never had to recap any of them; several of them were done 10+ years ago. i have a DK with the original 20EZ that has been in an arcade and on for 10 hours a day, 363 days a year (closed Thanksgiving and Christmas) for the last five years and still has a great picture (and no audio issues.) my CarnEvil also has 4+ years in the same arcade on the same hours, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy with a high-temp kit for at least 3 years. i also have several games with kits put together from Mouser stock. they all still look just fine.

but i'm not going to fault anyone who wants to buy higher-quality caps; they very well might last longer. i picked up Bob's kits because they were convenient to add into an order which saved me a lot in shipping since generally i need to cap only one or two monitors a few times a year, and buying one kit at a time + shipping often doubled the cost or more.

and yes, for a hobby, $5 here and $10 there can add up to a lot of money over time. do i spend thousands on restorations? heck no. i spend enough to make the game play great with quality controls and a nice monitor.
 
to be fair, the sanyo is a fairly well designed monitor and capacitors have almost no effect on the image quality of that monitor. There are plenty of monitors where a 1000 hour cap is going to get you a recap in a year or two. Sanyo just isn't one of them.
 
i have capped 20EZs, GO-7's, K7000's, K7500's, K4900's, K4600's, K6100's, V2000's, Sharps, Matsushitas, Korteks, Neotecs, Nanaos, Hantarexes... at least 50 monitors in the last dozen years. not a single one needed a recap after only a year or two. in fact, not a single one has needed a recap while i've owned it, and many i've had for 5-10 years (i don't churn my collection like i used to.) at least 20 have been in an arcade and on for significant hours, more than any home collector is ever likely to use it for.

i'm not saying there might not be an advantage to using a higher quality cap and they might last another 30 years (unlike most of us.) but in my experience this doom and gloom scenario of lesser-rated caps lasting only short periods of time just isn't real likely.
 
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