I'm definitely only using them for driving LEDs in my own non-critical
hobby projects.

There's no traceable supply chain for this stuff. Even the return
addresses quite often look fake. One I remember seeing a couple of times
was something like:
Ding Dong Feng
Onehunglo #5
Beijing China

I kid you not!=20
I remember a game a roommate of mine in school used to do. He'd send
letters to himself using really short addresses to see what got through.
The shortest was:
DVA
BH
UCLA

Perhaps that Beijing return address is another type of game.

Bob

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015, at 08:27 PM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> Bob,
>      Yep! Why not put your own mark on them and sell them for what they=20
> are worth. There will be buyers. The thing is is that if they have=20
> holdings in the US, the EU, and most of SA TI can take them to court and=
=20
> sue them for big bucks damages for using the TI logo and TI has the=20
> bucks to pull it off even if the Chinese government got involved. I=20
> wonder if any of these ended up in our military supply chain.
> Thanks,
> rich!
>=20
> On 3/16/2015 10:17 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
> > At under $3 for 50 74HC595's, delivered, I knew what I was getting into=
..
> > I tested one, seems to work fine. What I don't get is their need to put
> > a fake TI logo on the parts.

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