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| wraper:
--- Quote from: blueskull on September 27, 2019, 06:49:59 pm --- --- Quote from: Gyro on September 27, 2019, 06:41:07 pm ---What's the betting on the Rubycon one inside being a fake too! ;D --- End quote --- Have you ever even seen a real Rubycon in blue color? --- End quote --- Dunno as of currently produced but I'm certain there where blue Rubycon in the past. |
| ANTALIFE:
I recently ran into a couple of counterfeit FRAM IC's. They acknowledged all I2C commands but when it came to actually reading the data from any address it would always return 0x00 https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/mb85rc64ta-fram-trouble-writingreading/ |
| peter-h:
I've had fake Hitachi H8 processors. The lead frame was maybe 0.5mm bigger so they (OTP H8/332) didn't fit into the programmer very well. They were just an empty package with leads. We got about 10k of them, from one of the used stock cowboys in the US. They obviously didn't know they got this stock. The packages were labelled fairly well but not identically to Hitachi. The funny thing was that there was a type on the P/N on the package - something like H8/342 - which didn't exist. It's like the old joke about currency counterfeiters printing some £7 notes :) Luckily we had a credit account with the supplier, so we didn't get conned out of some $50k. They cancelled the credit account immediately... and we never bought from any other US used stock sellers afterwards unless they offered credit. |
| peter-h:
Yes, USD 5 was a good price, when the UK disti price was GBP 9. |
| jmsc_02:
I also like this presentation. it is very well documented and very easy to follow: https://mttc.jpl.nasa.gov/files/NASA%20Counterfeit%20Training_unlimited%20distribution%20handout.pdf |
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