A manufacturing facility for my employer, located in SE Europe, recently bought "UCC LXZ" parts that turned out to be laughable fakes. The outer wrapper was black instead of blue, the vent scoring was a right-angle "X", there were multiple styles of rubber bung for a single "date code", none remotely similar to what UCC actually uses. The "105C" and date code were rotated 180 degrees. The thickness of the letters and numbers of the value/voltage was wrong. The catalog of crude errors was rather amusing.
Some genius at my employer bought these fakes from a non-authorized distributor. When we contacted UCC in the Chicago area, they said that they had heard of the distributor, who had been caught before selling fake UCCs (fake KMMs, IIRC). They claimed in the first case that they were also victims of the fakery (Yeah! Right!)
The "moral of the story," try to buy caps from sources you know get parts from the original manufacturer or get parts from an authorized distributor.
Some genius at my employer bought these fakes from a non-authorized distributor. When we contacted UCC in the Chicago area, they said that they had heard of the distributor, who had been caught before selling fake UCCs (fake KMMs, IIRC). They claimed in the first case that they were also victims of the fakery (Yeah! Right!)
The "moral of the story," try to buy caps from sources you know get parts from the original manufacturer or get parts from an authorized distributor.
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