Dave McGuire wrote:
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I don't agree. It certainly *may* be, but there's no compelling
reason to say so "for sure". I work in the electronics industry;
counterfeit components are a very real, very big, very current problem
here. That's not me guessing, wondering, or saying it may be so; this
is a well known thing throughout the industry...a simple verifiable
fact. There was another big article about it in a weekly trade rag just
yesterday, and there's lots of new legislation happening to try to curb it.
As far as the capacitor-within-a-capacitor in the picture, don't
underestimate the cheapness of Chinese labor. I'm sure they have
children cranking those out by the hundred every day. With bigger
capacitors costing several dollars apiece, especially high-temp and
low-ESR capacitors, the demand for which is skyrocketing now, it's
probably even more profitable than relabeling cheap chips as expensive
ones and flooding them onto the market.
I agree with most of what you sayed, and I'm woring for the electronic
industry too, for my own company in this special case :-)
Again, yes, there are counterfied products with poor quality all over the
world. Almost nobody can tell you what aou will get when you order audio
Transistors from Sanken for example, there are masses of them.
It was only this single Part on the picture about that I've sayd this can't
be made econmically even for a chinese. The price difference between the
original part and the small noname cap and the additional used parts
(Housing, tube, print, bottom and contacts plus the needed work) will
really be to small, even for an chinese worker.
I have no problem when you say, that there may be
Rubicon lookalikes on
the market that doesn't hold the specs, but not such a thing.
Remeber: Chineses are making cheap things, but they aren't idiots for sure.
They're certainly quite smart; a lot smarter than the rest of us it
seems. So, since they're making and exporting counterfeit components by
the container load, they must see quite a profit from it.
-Dave
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