[sdiy] Counterfeit chips

[Bob Weigel]

I haven't tried the VCA chips I got from HKSS.  Dont' know if they 
work.  But I have experience in the past with a company in Florida 
called "Dalbani."..apparently not managed by the same as the one in UK.  
They are "stupid alelical" imbociles.  They sold me fraud power 
transistors and laughed that I didn't find out until warranty had 
expired in their 'policy'.  I tried to help them understand that we were 
talking about a CRIME and we needed to know WHERE they sourced those 
fraudeulently marked devices. I just got the "Stupid Amelical" response. 

It's real popular to do with Power transistors because

1) Easy to get large quantities of unmarked rejects I suppose
2) Often they'll work for a while or even forever depending on the 
application/demand
3) If they do blow it's something that happens relatively often and it 
can be blamed on unknown factors

-Bob

bayne d'artagnan wrote:

>On 11/15/07, Oakley Sound <tonyallgood at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> > it seems to me that counterfeit synth parts might have desirable
>>qualities of their own.
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>>Except for the fact that may be simply re labelled chips. So, for
>>example, it could be just a very expensive 74HCT274.
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>Right, but that's the extreme. Obviously that's not going to work at
>all. The article that was linked was not talking about that type of
>fraud, however. I've also seen this discussion before especially in
>regard to power transistors.
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>So nobody has observed any attempts to provide working, but
>substandard/unofficial, synth chips then?
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>I think that it's quite a claim to say "watch out for this guy because
>he's a fraud" when there isn't any real evidence of that. I just
>looked and he is the guy selling 2044s for low prices and we have
>reports right here that there's nothing wrong with them. Have some
>people ordered delay chips and got something else? How do you know
>that the seller wasn't also defrauded?
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