Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 10:46:17 EST 2019 | rvines1
I've recently seen some TO-220 FETs that appear to be counterfeit parts that have had the marked area resurfaced and remarked with a false part number. I don't know much about semiconductor manufacturing, and I just want to know if there is a type o
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 10:38:38 EST 2004 | fastek
This I have heard from (2) different sources. Fuji feeders for CP series machines are now being counterfeited in China and are being sold as original. They will in all appearences look completely legit in original boxes and with Fuji bar-codes. Once
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 12:02:20 EST 2004 | Rob
I've seen 2 types from China, one type was an amazing copy (Fuji supplier's factory back door possibly?) and the other was a cheap copy. The cheap copy was adequately functional, but I wouldn't want to bet on it's long term life.
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 12:29:12 EST 2004 | fastek
Interesting Rob. The fake ones that I was told about would fail within minutes as the index wheels would be reduced to metal shavings right away.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 12:13:38 EST 2019 | robl
Yep, lots of ways to do it and lots of ways to check it. Immediately blacklist the supplier who sent them in to your business. Manufacturers don't need to do this. I've heard excuses such as remarked due to automotive qualification, but normally di
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 03:45:31 EST 2004 | rlackey
I don't think that the ones I encountered were "fake", I think that they were cheap copies - ie. actually meant to work, not just to part someone with their cash - engineered to a price (just a very low one!). It does seem a bit strange to go to the
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 15 17:16:54 EST 2012 | davef
To get started look here: http://www.smtnet.com/Forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=61862 On your lingering disbelief of your suppliers truthfulness in the C of C: Periodic auditing of their truthfulness by your QA peeps or a third party is an acce
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 15:36:05 EDT 2010 | ccross
That is exactly the type of problem we are having. Some work, some dont. We feel these parts are not counterfeit so to speak but reworked, removed from other boards, cleaned up to some degree - hence the flux residue, black contamination, scrapes, wr
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 17 23:20:12 EDT 2011 | leadthree
Hola, seems we bought some fishy parts from a vendor in Germany. One is for sure fake, the others we don't know yet. Does someone here knows some reliable counterfeit testing labs? Best would be one in Hong Kong
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 14:24:53 EDT 2005 | Mark
Ersa #2 . . . http://www.madelltech.com/m2.html
