[ARC5] Disc Capacitors

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 3 Mar 2013 at 12:41, Geoff wrote:

> Ive read similar horror stories about those blue 10-20KV 1000pf and
> similar caps on fleabay used as plate blocking in amps running 2-4KV.
> Also China.
> 
> Carl

BOOM!

Also, there is apparently a thriving business by certain Chinese vendors in 
VERY fake transistors, which look like "real" transistors, but are, in many 
cases, 2N2222s inside a much larger, more robust "case".

MRF-485 comes to mind.

This reminds me of the millions of defective electrolytic caps they made and 
sold which were used in thousands of computer motherboards a few years 
ago.

And their very marginal 572Bs....which aren't... really. 

Ken W7EKB