If anyone reads the IET's Engineering & Technology magazine, in the
current issue is an article "Electrical industry fights fakes".

It has a picture of counterfeit and genuine MCB's side by side with
the covers removed.

The fake has literally just a crude switch inside it. No current
sensing or fusing. Unless you opened it up or tested it with an
overcurrent, you would never know (until it failed to trip when
necessary and your wiring melted).

Picture and text he

http://www.voltimum.co.uk/news/9428/...ing-Alert.html

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:41:21 -0700, wrote:

Picture and text he

http://www.voltimum.co.uk/news/9428/...ing-Alert.html

Nasty, particularly if there are similar fake versions of more popular
branks like MK about (which seem likely to happen if it hasn't already). I
guess one could test them fairly safely with appropriate loads from a car
or van battery.

--
John Stumbles

I forgot to take my amnesia medecine again

"John Stumbles" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:41:21 -0700, wrote:

Picture and text he

http://www.voltimum.co.uk/news/9428/...ing-Alert.html

Nasty, particularly if there are similar fake versions of more popular
branks like MK about (which seem likely to happen if it hasn't already). I
guess one could test them fairly safely with appropriate loads from a car
or van battery.

--
John Stumbles

On the plus side the MG brand seems to be fitted quite frequently on the
Pikey Camps I have worked on. They like to supply their own parts to save
money

Adam

John Stumbles wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:41:21 -0700, wrote:

Picture and text he

http://www.voltimum.co.uk/news/9428/...ing-Alert.html

Nasty, particularly if there are similar fake versions of more popular
branks like MK about (which seem likely to happen if it hasn't
already). I
guess one could test them fairly safely with appropriate loads from a
car
or van battery.

From reading the article it would seem you'd have to be a bit dozy not to
spot the fakes as they're a lot lighter than the real things.

Tim

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "
saying something like:

If anyone reads the IET's Engineering & Technology magazine, in the
current issue is an article "Electrical industry fights fakes".

It has a picture of counterfeit and genuine MCB's side by side with
the covers removed.

The fake has literally just a crude switch inside it. No current
sensing or fusing. Unless you opened it up or tested it with an
overcurrent, you would never know (until it failed to trip when
necessary and your wiring melted).

****. The ****s responsible for that should be taken out and beaten to
within an inch of their lives. Or kneecapped. Kneecapped would be good.
--

Dave

From reading the article it would seem you'd have to be a bit dozy not to
spot the fakes as they're a lot lighter than the real things.

Not if it was built up into a consumer unit. And no doubt whoever is
making them will have added a bit of dummy weight inside them in
response.

...should be taken out and beaten to
within an inch of their lives. Or kneecapped. Kneecapped would be good.

Electrocution too good for them?

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:02:17 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "
saying something like:

If anyone reads the IET's Engineering & Technology magazine, in the
current issue is an article "Electrical industry fights fakes".

It has a picture of counterfeit and genuine MCB's side by side with
the covers removed.

The fake has literally just a crude switch inside it. No current
sensing or fusing. Unless you opened it up or tested it with an
overcurrent, you would never know (until it failed to trip when
necessary and your wiring melted).

****. The ****s responsible for that should be taken out and beaten to
within an inch of their lives. Or kneecapped. Kneecapped would be good.

Wouldn't electrocution be more appropriate....

"Now, Mr. faker, you will feel a brief shock, but this will only last unti your RCD trips..."

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT), " wrote:


From reading the article it would seem you'd have to be a bit dozy not to
spot the fakes as they're a lot lighter than the real things.

Not if it was built up into a consumer unit. And no doubt whoever is
making them will have added a bit of dummy weight inside them in
response.

Like the makers of this fake laptop AC adapter :
http://www.mars-cam.com/optical.html

Mike Harrison wrote:

Like the makers of this fake laptop AC adapter :
http://www.mars-cam.com/optical.html

Wrong URL?

--
Adrian C

On 12/04/2008 12:48, Adrian C wrote:

Mike Harrison wrote:

http://www.mars-cam.com/optical.html

Wrong URL?

That's not a lens

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.en...-01sigma-8.jpg

/that's/ a lens!

Andy Burns wrote:
On 12/04/2008 12:48, Adrian C wrote:

Mike Harrison wrote:

http://www.mars-cam.com/optical.html

Wrong URL?

That's not a lens

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.en...-01sigma-8.jpg


/that's/ a lens!

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/01/sigma-apo-200-500-f2-8-telephoto-lens-hands-on/

That's _only_ 500mm

You need this 5200mm one but don't take it for wedding photography, it's
inappropiate no matter how "wild life" the bride looks ;-)

http://www.canonfd.com/mirrorlenses/images/page10.jpg

Actually, taking pictures in the sky seems to be its application. The
following 1700mm is thus a compromise...

http://www.zeiss.com/c12567a8003b58b9/Contents-Frame/8baac109cb80bddfc12571e100393a1b

--
Adrian C

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:11:09 +0000, Mike Harrison wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:02:17 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "
saying something like:

If anyone reads the IET's Engineering & Technology magazine, in the
current issue is an article "Electrical industry fights fakes".

It has a picture of counterfeit and genuine MCB's side by side with the
covers removed.

The fake has literally just a crude switch inside it. No current
sensing or fusing. Unless you opened it up or tested it with an
overcurrent, you would never know (until it failed to trip when
necessary and your wiring melted).

****. The ****s responsible for that should be taken out and beaten to
within an inch of their lives. Or kneecapped. Kneecapped would be good.

Wouldn't electrocution be more appropriate....

"Now, Mr. faker, you will feel a brief shock, but this will only last
unti your RCD trips..."


I like that one... :-)

I'd be surprised if anyone who uses the MG product would be taken in (the
real ones are quite heavy), but that wouldn't stop some unscrupulous fit
+run cowboy from using them.

--
Mick (Working in a M$-free zone!)
Web: http://www.nascom.info http://mixpix.batcave.net
Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam.

In message , mick
writes
I'd be surprised if anyone who uses the MG product would be taken in (the
real ones are quite heavy), but that wouldn't stop some unscrupulous fit
+run cowboy from using them.

Or a householder replacing one...
--
Clint Sharp