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there has been posts here on fakes
So yeah, believe they do exist
in other words I suppose dont buy from your friendly ebay trader based in China..
the other thing to watch out for is very similar style of fonts and names like rulyconYou step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you may be swept off to." Bilbo Baggins ...Comment
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Yes but can the entire problem with HM/HN caps be explained away?
It seems really convienient.
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- even counterfeit caps would have lasted longer than those HM/HN
- unlikely that Intel, Apple, Dell were all using same oems or same cap supplier, therefore quite difficult to distribute fake caps to all.Comment
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Thats what I thought.Originally posted by willawake
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Nichicon has, AFAIK, acknowledged the problem with the HM and HM caps as having been due to a process problem in their own factory. So this notice is not some kind of attempt to duck blame. As willa pointed out. I've seen a similar notice on UCC site, and something like it could probably be found on Rubycon's and Panasonic's sites. I think Big Pope linked to a Samxon webpage with a similar notice.
Counterfeiting is a problem for any good vendor of good parts. About a year ago we caught some counterfeit MOSFETs. Our tests not only sufficed to prove they were not what they marked, but also identified what they probably were (an older generation of a very good, lower performance part, from a very good vendor that were probably bought surplus and remarked).PeteS in CA
Power Supplies should be boring: No loud noises, no bright flashes, and no bad smells.
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yeah that was my understanding the HM/HN (whatever) were real macoy but a bad bunch....
Think the early G5 cheese graters had them
in the 80's there was a bunch of 2N3055 transistors that were counterfeit...well they didn't meet the specs thats for sure
(think from memory was the 2N series)
I think they were coming through a ligament Hobby chain too....
So its a worry when know good supplies get caught out
Its not great either when a know good company ends up producing duds but it happens
As in the case of Nichicon.....Apple got burned by thisYou step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you may be swept off to." Bilbo Baggins ...Comment
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A 'bad batch' is more consistant with this;
(this is for the 8mm part; 1000uF, 16v)
The seller has a reputation to protect too. If the part was found to never had been viable then why would it be still listed?
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I thought the HM/HN problem was corrected? A lot of my new vid cards and boards have them along with rubies and those solid ones.Comment
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I've had no problems so far with new HMs.Comment
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Hi everyone, I hope someone has some pointers for me, for fun I'm trying to repair USB C charging on a Lenovo E15 G4 laptop, I brought this back from work as it was written off, I successfully replaced the USB C port some time ago, however it was broken again by the end user, this time the port was twisted off the board but the pads survived,
I have installed another port but the charger never gets the ok from the PD chip (tps65994ae) to go to 20 volts, it does charge slowly using the boost converter to step up the charging voltage but takes hours, voltages present on the PD controller are... -
Hi all, have been lurking here for quite some time, and now my first post
People who have experience replacing CD3217B12 chips (on macbooks), I have a few questions for you.
As far as I understand, the CD3217B12 exists in more than one type and the different types are not cross-compatible. Is that correct? How many types are there in fact that you know of and which motherboards is each type compatible with? Do they look visually the same, or is there some difference in marking?
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There’re several Pioneer amplifiers that carry two MOSFET pairs IRF530 / IRF9530 from International Rectifier:
A-107
A-109
A-207
A-209R
A-307R
...and others
Well, two years ago I bought 10 pairs of these transistors at AliExpress. Although I was very aware of counterfeits, I thought that a quite humble and inexpensive MOSFET wouldn’t be attractive to counterfeiters.
They looked fine and I’ve used them as replacements, with very deceiving results. At first, they apparently work fine, but soon I noticed some disturbing... -
I ordered 50 FGD4536 ibgt's from them and recieved 50 fucking blanks, useless Chinese forgeries for $44. I can get a full refund if I spend at least $15 to ship the garbage back to China for some other person to buy. I decided I would like to publicly disgrace them and just eat the $44. They advertised them as used but working. They came in a strip of new FAKES that looked nothing like the real ones. BEWARE OF THOSE SHADY BASTARDS!
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This store sells a good range of apparently good quality caps at keen (not massively cheap but keen) prices. Ranging from cheap OSTs and Samwhas to Panasonics and Nichicons.
I've bought a few packs (not spent much -- a few dollars) and if they are fakes, someone's taken care to present them properly.
They look just like the real thing -- well-printed labels, bungs and vents look correct, ESRs are consistent with genuine caps (the one set of Chemicon 1500uF caps that were highish ESR turned out to be a GP range, and that was my bad for not checking).
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