>
> A point to keep in mind is that reputable product manufacturers may very well
> be selling products that are powered by garbage like what is discussed in
> this article. (Note the comments about fake UL and FCC labels.) If they do
> not conduct full EMC tests on the selected product (and most probably will
> not), then the only way that a bad choice in power supply vendor will be
> known is when someone who is sensitive to RFI issues gets burned and yells, a
> lot.
Yell loud and long. Another little trick is Ebay feedback. That's where a lot
of the fakes come from, and a lot of those same fakes might be in stores. And
the sellers are exquisitely sensitive to feedback. Even more so to a polite
letter to Ebay. Suspension of their accounts is the worst possible thing that
could happen to them. Anyone who suspects finds and reports a fake UL sticker
will earn Ebay's sin bin, due to liability issues.
You might look at this as similar to Amateurs helping to police the illegal
radios at truck stops a few years back.
- Mike -
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