Dawn
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It seems that no matter where you look, someone is making an issue about bogus/counterfit drivers, finals and audio chips. So far, the few that I've bought off the 'bay have turned out good. From what I gather from posts, you might think you found a dependable source and the next bath turns out bogus or inferior. Not the fault of the supplier, just that the supply chain is polouted with garbage.
Or is it? There's piles of vendors selling 2sc1969's and 2sc2166's that obviously aren't original Mitsubishi especially at cheap prices from Asia. If these are such garbage and most are counterfits that don't work as a very prolific youtuber is making it seem that also has a vested interest in an alternate product, why is nobody complaining? Take a look at the feedback on these sources selling these transistors. I haven't seen a single one that somebody has hit with a negative rating. I've read where someone did get a bad device and the supplier promptly replaced it and they were happy. You've got this Weasel, EKL and their Mosfet products essentially plying a fear trade. Maybe they're 100% right that there's a lot of crap in the supply chain and bogus, but at the same time, they have a product they're selling. Spooking you and making it sound like this is a dire problem is a great way of drumming up a niche business.
Like I said, I took some chances and bought a handfull of the above and some HA1339 and UPC1156 audio chips that are suposed to be unobtainable now. They work and the prices weren't bad.
The big word now is Mosfets. The ERF's and '520's are great, providing you work on recent radios, but for average repair, there is very little info on retrofitting them into older sets even though the used the same '2078's,2166's, and 1969's as the current ones do. I'm not seeing anyone doing retros for the RFX modules either. Lets face it, while the exports and newer radios certainly are favorites, the work I'm starting to see is folks bringing me older big base radios like trc-457's, Courier 40PLL's, the Sears units I mentioned a while back. There's lots of these sitting in boxes with problems that the chop shops are too lazy to have to do some real component level repair instead of making a fast buck seeing the same radio chassis.
I can't tell you how many times already just getting my feet wet that someone brings me a radio with either a check out tag or some **** and bull story that a shop had told them was wrong with their radio and was unrepairable. It's obvious many times they never even bothered to to diagnose a thing and tell the customer some BS because it's not worth their time when they can be filling a radio with magic capacitors, blue led's, super swing mods and other stupidity that makes a fast buck rather then really repairing radios.
Any of you in service or technically oriented are convinced that the market is flooded with worthless garbage and theirs no good subs around? So far, my experience is otherwise and they're holding up when aligned to spec and not pushed.
Just want to know if this is a bunch of bull or am I just damn lucky so far.
Or is it? There's piles of vendors selling 2sc1969's and 2sc2166's that obviously aren't original Mitsubishi especially at cheap prices from Asia. If these are such garbage and most are counterfits that don't work as a very prolific youtuber is making it seem that also has a vested interest in an alternate product, why is nobody complaining? Take a look at the feedback on these sources selling these transistors. I haven't seen a single one that somebody has hit with a negative rating. I've read where someone did get a bad device and the supplier promptly replaced it and they were happy. You've got this Weasel, EKL and their Mosfet products essentially plying a fear trade. Maybe they're 100% right that there's a lot of crap in the supply chain and bogus, but at the same time, they have a product they're selling. Spooking you and making it sound like this is a dire problem is a great way of drumming up a niche business.
Like I said, I took some chances and bought a handfull of the above and some HA1339 and UPC1156 audio chips that are suposed to be unobtainable now. They work and the prices weren't bad.
The big word now is Mosfets. The ERF's and '520's are great, providing you work on recent radios, but for average repair, there is very little info on retrofitting them into older sets even though the used the same '2078's,2166's, and 1969's as the current ones do. I'm not seeing anyone doing retros for the RFX modules either. Lets face it, while the exports and newer radios certainly are favorites, the work I'm starting to see is folks bringing me older big base radios like trc-457's, Courier 40PLL's, the Sears units I mentioned a while back. There's lots of these sitting in boxes with problems that the chop shops are too lazy to have to do some real component level repair instead of making a fast buck seeing the same radio chassis.
I can't tell you how many times already just getting my feet wet that someone brings me a radio with either a check out tag or some **** and bull story that a shop had told them was wrong with their radio and was unrepairable. It's obvious many times they never even bothered to to diagnose a thing and tell the customer some BS because it's not worth their time when they can be filling a radio with magic capacitors, blue led's, super swing mods and other stupidity that makes a fast buck rather then really repairing radios.
Any of you in service or technically oriented are convinced that the market is flooded with worthless garbage and theirs no good subs around? So far, my experience is otherwise and they're holding up when aligned to spec and not pushed.
Just want to know if this is a bunch of bull or am I just damn lucky so far.
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