[ARC5] Disc Capacitors

[Peter Gottlieb]

The thing is, just try and sell into China.  EVERYTHING is gone over with a 
fine-toothed comb and you have to pay, even in cases where international treaty 
allows any testing lab, you have to pay for the Chinese lab to re-do the work to 
get in.


On 3/3/2013 1:27 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> 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
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