On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:25:47 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:

>Sean Breheny wrote:
>> Here is one example of counterfeit parts which is pretty funny (unless
>> you designed them in to something):
>>
>> http://blog.makezine.com/MAKE_PT0153.jpg
>
>ROFL!!!!
>
>:-D
>
>A colleague suggested that they should open the blue one too, to see if 
>there's an even smaller capacitor inside.

Wouldn't have much confidence the Rubycon cap isn't a fake. 

Also if you see Bubycon parts it isn't a typo, someone in China decided it
would be a good name for a capacitor manufacturer...

The only fake problem I have personally experienced was with a Fairchild
logic level MOSFET on some boards assembled in China. They looked fake and
were not logic level enough. The threshold voltage was way out of spec. 


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