Jaycar....

[Rod Speed]

On Sun, 29 May 2022 07:56:54 +1000, Trevor Wilson
<trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:

On 29/05/2022 7:31 am, Rod Speed wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2022 06:52:14 +1000, Trevor Wilson
trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:

On 29/05/2022 4:54 am, Rod Speed wrote:
On Sat, 28 May 2022 16:05:55 +1000, Trevor Wilson
trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:

On 27/05/2022 9:19 pm, Rod Speed wrote:
On Fri, 27 May 2022 16:30:48 +1000, Trevor Wilson
trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:

On 27/05/2022 3:23 pm, Clocky wrote:
On 27/05/2022 3:01 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 26/05/2022 6:51 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 26-May-22 5:03 pm, keithr0 wrote:
It has been reported that JB Hi, Super Retail Group, and
Wesfarmers are looking to buy Jaycar valued at ~$500M.

Then they\'ll convert it into a standard consumer electronics
store, the way they did with Dick Smith, and destroy its market
in the process.

Sylvia.

**You mean the market for over-priced junk and counterfeit
electronic components?

Counterfeit? Well apart from that dude that did the Arduino
(IIRC) starter kit which they blatantly copied, what other
examples are there?

Jaycar are notorious for selling dodgy, Chinese, re-branded
components that do not meet their published specs.

So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

I no longer do. Nuts, bolts, screws, junky toys, etc is all Jaycar
is useful for.
More of your utterly mindless bullshit.
I had an urgent need for a plugpack when lightning took out
the one that powered the security system at the local Salvos.
I replaced it with one from the local Jaycar because the local
Salvos use theirs to catch shop thieves and it is still working fine.

My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on a
project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC,
300ma plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they
began failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When 10%
if the plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an
Australian manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date
(and it has been 25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period
of a few months is simply unforgivable.
The one I got is still working fine.

Your sample experience of ONE is duly noted.

There you go again, face down in the mud, as always. It was more than one.

MY sample experience was SIX HUNDRED. A 10% failure rate within a few
months is appalling.

With just ONE model, stupid.

When my FTTN system went out for a day or two without notice
I couldn\'t put my hand on my wifi dongle so I got another from
the local Jaycar. Price was quite a it higher than from anyone
else but cheaper than from Hardly Normal, the only other source
in my country town. Worked fine and still does and much more
convenient than no internet for a couple of days.

Notably, they were caught selling MJ15003/MJ15004 transistors that
didn\'t come close to the manufacturer\'s specs. Quite a few techs
were caught out. Jaycar were kind enough to refund their purchase
price, but not the time spent fixing the same fault several times.
One of my mates got caught out, when he was repairing a TV set
with dodgy Jaycar parts. He lost 4 hours chasing his tail.

So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

Here\'s the thing: Those of us who have purchased such components
have been burned.

So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

And, once more: How do people know what not to buy, unless they have
already purchased rubbish?

You can get real radical and ask others who have bought stuff from
Jaycar.

At some point, someone has to be the first.

I am never first with what I buy from Jaycar.

Phil Allison was one of, if not, the first person to publicise the
failings of Jaycar and Dick Smith WRT counterfeit parts.

I don\'t buy stuff that can be counterfeited from Jaycar.

And, here\'s the thing: We already have a system in place to ensure
consumers obtain quality parts. It\'s called ISO9001 accreditation. RS
Components, ELement14, X-On and others have it. Jaycar doesn\'t.

None of those have a walk in in my country town except Jaycar, stupid.

Good riddance. Jaycar has been a blight on the industry for
decades.


Rubbish.
Sure, they sell junk but they\'re also handy if you need
something and it doesn\'t need to be top shelf. Very convenient
for hobbyists.

Sure. Hobbyists don\'t care if something they\'ve repaired blows up
again. Don\'t get me wrong: I have a Jaycar 15 minutes from my home
and if I need something desperately and/or not critical, I\'ll buy
from them.

So your original is just more of your mindless bullshit.

My original what?
Claim/post etc.

My original claim is spot-on.

Bullshit it is.

Not only have I provided examples to prove you wrong,

You didn\'t prove me wrong on walk in access, fuckwit.

> but Jaycar\'s failings are well documented.

In spades with the lack of any other walk in in my country town, fuckwit.

Jaycar sell over-priced rubbish.
They sell plenty of adequate quality stuff and some find
they need something right now and don\'t need the week\'s
delay from another Oz supplier or the months delay with
aliexpress or ebay sellers who use chinese suppliers.

How do you know if anything Jaycar sells is adequate?

Buy buying it and see if it works and doesn\'t fail soon, stupid.

> They don\'t have ISO9001 accreditation.

But do have walk in access in my town, fuckwit.

Their products are unreliable

That\'s bullshit with plenty of them.

Sure. Their nuts and bolts are OK.

Lot more than just their nuts and bolts, you pathetic excuse for a
bullshit artist.

and many of their components are below spec and/or counterfeit.

So don\'t buy those, stupid.

Tell me, in as much detail as you feel necessary, how YOU go about
ascertaining if a (say) MJ15003 transistor is counterfeit or not.

I don\'t buy those from Jaycar, fuckwit.

More importantly: Why should any consumer be forced to carefully check
every component they buy, before they install it into a project or
repair job?

When they need it right now, fuckwit.

However, all my US/Euro semiconductors and electrolytic caps come
from an ISO9001 supplier, like Element14, RS or X-On. Japanese
semis are from WES, which are not immune from selling counterfeit
semis either. I was caught a couple of time. And their electros
are rubbish.
So only buy the other stuff from Jaycar, stupid.

**Duh.


We don\'t have a Jaycar, only an agent but they are very helpful
and are happy to get things in from other suppliers on their
stock orders and not charge additional freight.

Like I said: Hobbyists don\'t care if something blows up.
Even sillier than you usually manage and that\'s saying something...

Of course hobbyists care. They just don\'t understand why their
project has blown up. They just assume that they\'ve done something
stupid, when, in reality, the only stupid thing they did was to buy
shitty components from Jaycar.

None of my purchases from Jaycar have blown up.

Uh-huh.
Fraid so.

**Time will tell.

Time has already told. I haven\'t bought anything from them since before
covid, fuckwit.

 

[keithr0]

On 29/05/2022 6:52 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on a
project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC, 300ma
plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they began
failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When 10% if the
plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an Australian
manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date (and it has been
25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period of
a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability? Over a large
number of components, the failure rate is high early on, then it falls
to a lower steady level rising again when the component reaches EOL. We
used to deal in 10s of thousands of hard disks, and the effect was very
noticeable.

 

[Phil Allison]

Pommy keithr0 lunatic wrote:
===========================

On 29/05/2022 6:52 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on a
project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC, 300ma
plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they began
failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When 10% if the
plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an Australian
manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date (and it has been
25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period of
a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability?

** Massive, stupid irrelevance.

> Over a large number of components,

** How many parts are there in an AC plugpak ?
The answer is one.

How long do such items usually last.
Answer, 20 years plus.



...... Phil

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

On 29/05/2022 07:56, Trevor Wilson wrote:
[SNIP]

And, here\'s the thing: We already have a system in place to ensure
consumers obtain quality parts. It\'s called ISO9001 accreditation. RS
Components, ELement14, X-On and others have it. Jaycar doesn\'t.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but ISO9001 does *not* guarantee quality,
only that a defined process was followed.

So if the parts that get loaded into the container are rejects from the
sweepings of the factory floors in Guangzhou, but the *paperwork* says
the are \"titanium-plated watsits\", then ISO9001 has been followed.

Doesn\'t help when your watsit blows up or fails catastrophically.

There was an example of this large-scale failure of process back in the
1980s in the USA to do with aircraft parts. There were fatalities, IIRC.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[keithr0]

On 29/05/2022 11:33 am, Phil Allison wrote:

Pommy keithr0 lunatic wrote:
===========================
On 29/05/2022 6:52 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on a
project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC, 300ma
plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they began
failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When 10% if the
plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an Australian
manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date (and it has been
25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period of
a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability?

** Massive, stupid irrelevance.

Since you\'ve never worked on anything more complex than a toaster, I
wouldn\'t expect you to be able to understand.

Over a large number of components,

** How many parts are there in an AC plugpak ?
The answer is one.

The plugpack is the component you idiot.

 

[Trevor Wilson]

On 29/05/2022 11:29 am, keithr0 wrote:

On 29/05/2022 6:52 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on a
project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC,
300ma plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they
began failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When 10%
if the plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an
Australian manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date
(and it has been 25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period
of a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability? Over a large
number of components, the failure rate is high early on, then it falls
to a lower steady level rising again when the component reaches EOL. We
used to deal in 10s of thousands of hard disks, and the effect was very
noticeable.

**So, I take that you consider a 10% failure rate in the first half of
your bathtub curve is acceptable?

I do not. It is completely unacceptable.

Back when I worked at Marantz, the Model 1070 was quite reliable and
used several hundred individual components. The failure rate was 0.5%
within the 3 year warranty period.

And, to underline the reliability thing, the device that the plugpack
was used with consisted of a microprocessor, 2 line LCD display, a NiCad
battery pack and a few dozen support components, including NiCad
charger. Only one was returned for repair and that turned out to be a
fault with the 128 strand, silicone wire leads that was connected to the
outside world.

Yet, Jaycar plugpacks exhibited a 10% failure rate. Their replacement
packs (which cost more) were made in Australia and have exhibited a far
greater reliability.

 

[Phil Allison]

Pommy keithr0 rabid lunatic wrote:
=============================

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period of
a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability?

** Massive, stupid irrelevance.

Since ....

** Fuck off you bullshitting pommy cunthead.

Over a large number of components,

** How many parts are there in an AC plugpak ?
The answer is one.

The plugpack is the component you idiot.

** Wot insane crap.



........ Phil

 

[Xeno]

On 29/5/2022 5:12 pm, Phil Allison wrote:

Pommy keithr0 rabid lunatic wrote:
=============================


A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period of
a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability?

** Massive, stupid irrelevance.

Since ....

** Fuck off you bullshitting pommy cunthead.

That\'d be an emphatic *NO* then.....

Over a large number of components,

** How many parts are there in an AC plugpak ?
The answer is one.

The plugpack is the component you idiot.

** Wot insane crap.



....... Phil

--
Xeno


Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

[Phil Allison]

Xeno = ASD fucked retard

=======================

Pommy keithr0 rabid lunatic wrote:
=============================


A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period of
a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability?

** Massive, stupid irrelevance.

Since ....

** Fuck off you bullshitting pommy cunthead.

That\'d be an emphatic *NO* then....

** That would be another, steaming great dog turd straight out you fucking arse.





...... Phil

 

[keithr0]

On 29/05/2022 4:10 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:

On 29/05/2022 11:29 am, keithr0 wrote:
On 29/05/2022 6:52 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on
a project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC,
300ma plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they
began failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When
10% if the plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an
Australian manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date
(and it has been 25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a period
of a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability? Over a large
number of components, the failure rate is high early on, then it falls
to a lower steady level rising again when the component reaches EOL.
We used to deal in 10s of thousands of hard disks, and the effect was
very noticeable.

**So, I take that you consider a 10% failure rate in the first half of
your bathtub curve is acceptable?

Not good but I\'ve seen such major issues with gear from well known
manufacturers over the years.

I do not. It is completely unacceptable.

Back when I worked at Marantz, the Model 1070 was quite reliable and
used several hundred individual components. The failure rate was 0.5%
within the 3 year warranty period.

And, to underline the reliability thing, the device that the plugpack
was used with consisted of a microprocessor, 2 line LCD display, a NiCad
battery pack and a few dozen support components, including NiCad
charger. Only one was returned for repair and that turned out to be a
fault with the 128 strand, silicone wire leads that was connected to the
outside world.

All that in a plugpack?

Yet, Jaycar plugpacks exhibited a 10% failure rate. Their replacement
packs (which cost more) were made in Australia and have exhibited a far
greater reliability.

 

[Daniel65]

Rod Speed wrote on 29/5/22 4:54 am:

<Snip>

I had an urgent need for a plugpack when lightning took out
the one that powered the security system at the local Salvos.
I replaced it with one from the local Jaycar because the local
Salvos use theirs to catch shop thieves and it is still working fine.

I volunteer at our local Salvos shop, where all money made goes back
into the local community by way of helping out those in need.

We don\'t make a heap of money, even in the best of times a $2000 a week
would have been a stretch, now with limited volunteers forcing limited
opening hours, $500 a week is an extremely good week .... but we try!!

A couple of months ago, we had some (needy??) person/people break into
the shop and take the $1500-$2000 that was being stored in the shop,
awaiting the Salvos Minister to bank it!!

BASTARDS!!

Especially when you think that if the crooks had ASKED for assistance,
they would have gotten it!!

So, now, I bring each days takings home with me and the Minister banks
them every now and again!!

When my FTTN system went out for a day or two without notice
I couldn\'t put my hand on my wifi dongle so I got another from
the local Jaycar. Price was quite a it higher than from anyone
else but cheaper than from Hardly Normal, the only other source
in my country town. Worked fine and still does and much more
convenient than no internet for a couple of days.

Notably, they were caught selling MJ15003/MJ15004 transistors that
didn\'t come close to the manufacturer\'s specs. Quite a few techs
were caught out. Jaycar were kind enough to refund their purchase
price, but not the time spent fixing the same fault several times.
One of my mates got caught out, when he was repairing a TV set with
dodgy Jaycar parts. He lost 4 hours chasing his tail.

 So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

Here\'s the thing: Those of us who have purchased such components have
been burned.

So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

Good riddance. Jaycar has been a blight on the industry for decades.


 Rubbish.
 Sure, they sell junk but they\'re also handy if you need something
and it doesn\'t need to be top shelf. Very convenient for hobbyists.

Sure. Hobbyists don\'t care if something they\'ve repaired blows up
again. Don\'t get me wrong: I have a Jaycar 15 minutes from my home
and if I need something desperately and/or not critical, I\'ll buy
from them.

 So your original is just more of your mindless bullshit.

My original what?

Claim/post etc.

However, all my US/Euro semiconductors and electrolytic caps come
from an ISO9001 supplier, like Element14, RS or X-On. Japanese semis
are from WES, which are not immune from selling counterfeit semis
either. I was caught a couple of time. And their electros are rubbish.
 So only buy the other stuff from Jaycar, stupid.

**Duh.


 We don\'t have a Jaycar, only an agent but they are very helpful
and are happy to get things in from other suppliers on their stock
orders and not charge additional freight.

Like I said: Hobbyists don\'t care if something blows up.
 Even sillier than you usually manage and that\'s saying something...

Of course hobbyists care. They just don\'t understand why their project
has blown up. They just assume that they\'ve done something stupid,
when, in reality, the only stupid thing they did was to buy shitty
components from Jaycar.

None of my purchases from Jaycar have blown up.

--
Daniel

 

[Trevor Wilson]

On 29/05/2022 7:28 pm, keithr0 wrote:

On 29/05/2022 4:10 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 29/05/2022 11:29 am, keithr0 wrote:
On 29/05/2022 6:52 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**My experience with Jaycar plugpacks is not as stellar. I worked on
a project for a client a few years back and I purchased 600 X 15VAC,
300ma plug packs from Jaycar. After a few months in the field they
began failing (the absolute maximum current drawn was 100ma). When
10% if the plugpacks had failed, I sourced new plugpacks from an
Australian manufacturer. These were rated at 16VAC, 100ma. To date
(and it has been 25 years) I\'ve had to supply 3 replacements.

A 10% failure rate is appallingly bad. A 10% failure rate in a
period of a few months is simply unforgivable.

Have you not heard of the \"Bathtub\" curve of reliability? Over a
large number of components, the failure rate is high early on, then
it falls to a lower steady level rising again when the component
reaches EOL. We used to deal in 10s of thousands of hard disks, and
the effect was very noticeable.

**So, I take that you consider a 10% failure rate in the first half of
your bathtub curve is acceptable?

Not good but I\'ve seen such major issues with gear from well known
manufacturers over the years.

**Certainly, but we are talking about a plugpack and one that lacked any
additional components, other than a transformer. They don\'t get much
simpler.

I do not. It is completely unacceptable.

Back when I worked at Marantz, the Model 1070 was quite reliable and
used several hundred individual components. The failure rate was 0.5%
within the 3 year warranty period.

And, to underline the reliability thing, the device that the plugpack
was used with consisted of a microprocessor, 2 line LCD display, a
NiCad battery pack and a few dozen support components, including NiCad
charger. Only one was returned for repair and that turned out to be a
fault with the 128 strand, silicone wire leads that was connected to
the outside world.

All that in a plugpack?

**Huh? I stated that the plugpack was connected to a device. The device,
itself, has been extremely reliable. In fact, I am unaware of any
failures, but I\'m confident some may have had failed NiCad battery packs
by this time. IT is the Jaycar plugpack that was unreliable. Everything
has been fine. That said, the company that engaged me to design the
product is long gone, so I have no idea what has happened in the past 15
~ 16 years.

My other point, lest it be forgotten, is that I engaged an Australian
transformer manufacturer to construct AC output transformers for the
device. Those transformers demonstrated vastly superior reliability.

Yet, Jaycar plugpacks exhibited a 10% failure rate. Their replacement
packs (which cost more) were made in Australia and have exhibited a
far greater reliability.

 

[Daniel65]

Daniel65 wrote on 29/5/22 9:12 pm:

Rod Speed wrote on 29/5/22 4:54 am:

Snip

I had an urgent need for a plugpack when lightning took out
the one that powered the security system at the local Salvos.
I replaced it with one from the local Jaycar because the local
Salvos use theirs to catch shop thieves and it is still working fine.

I volunteer at our local Salvos shop, where all money made goes back
into the local community by way of helping out those in need.

We don\'t make a heap of money, even in the best of times a $2000 a week
would have been a stretch, now with limited volunteers forcing limited
opening hours, $500 a week is an extremely good week .... but we try!!

A couple of months ago, we had some (needy??) person/people break into
the shop and take the $1500-$2000 that was being stored in the shop,
awaiting the Salvos Minister to bank it!!

BASTARDS!!

Especially when you think that if the crooks had ASKED for assistance,
they would have gotten it!!

So, now, I bring each days takings home with me and the Minister banks
them every now and again!!

And, of course, I had forgotten to delete the unrequired 60-70 lines
before I hit \'Send\'! ;-(
--
Daniel

 

[Rod Speed]

Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

I had an urgent need for a plugpack when lightning took out
the one that powered the security system at the local Salvos.
I replaced it with one from the local Jaycar because the local
Salvos use theirs to catch shop thieves and it is still working fine.

I volunteer at our local Salvos shop, where all money made goes back
into the local community by way of helping out those in need.

I don\'t but I didn\'t bill them for the replacement surveillance
system or the plug pack and they still have my monitor.

We don\'t make a heap of money, even in the best of times a $2000 a week
would have been a stretch, now with limited volunteers forcing limited
opening hours, $500 a week is an extremely good week .... but we try!!

A couple of months ago, we had some (needy??) person/people break into
the shop and take the $1500-$2000 that was being stored in the shop,
awaiting the Salvos Minister to bank it!!

They dont have ministers, they have officers.

BASTARDS!!

Especially when you think that if the crooks had ASKED for assistance,
they would have gotten it!!

So, now, I bring each days takings home with me and the Minister banks
them every now and again!!

When my FTTN system went out for a day or two without notice
I couldn\'t put my hand on my wifi dongle so I got another from
the local Jaycar. Price was quite a it higher than from anyone
else but cheaper than from Hardly Normal, the only other source
in my country town. Worked fine and still does and much more
convenient than no internet for a couple of days.

Notably, they were caught selling MJ15003/MJ15004 transistors that
didn\'t come close to the manufacturer\'s specs. Quite a few techs
were caught out. Jaycar were kind enough to refund their purchase
price, but not the time spent fixing the same fault several times.
One of my mates got caught out, when he was repairing a TV set with
dodgy Jaycar parts. He lost 4 hours chasing his tail.

So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

Here\'s the thing: Those of us who have purchased such components have
been burned.
So don\'t buy those components from them. stupid.

Good riddance. Jaycar has been a blight on the industry for
decades.


Rubbish.
Sure, they sell junk but they\'re also handy if you need something
and it doesn\'t need to be top shelf. Very convenient for hobbyists.

Sure. Hobbyists don\'t care if something they\'ve repaired blows up
again. Don\'t get me wrong: I have a Jaycar 15 minutes from my home
and if I need something desperately and/or not critical, I\'ll buy
from them.

So your original is just more of your mindless bullshit.

My original what?
Claim/post etc.

However, all my US/Euro semiconductors and electrolytic caps come
from an ISO9001 supplier, like Element14, RS or X-On. Japanese semis
are from WES, which are not immune from selling counterfeit semis
either. I was caught a couple of time. And their electros are
rubbish.
So only buy the other stuff from Jaycar, stupid.

**Duh.


We don\'t have a Jaycar, only an agent but they are very helpful
and are happy to get things in from other suppliers on their stock
orders and not charge additional freight.

Like I said: Hobbyists don\'t care if something blows up.
Even sillier than you usually manage and that\'s saying something...

Of course hobbyists care. They just don\'t understand why their project
has blown up. They just assume that they\'ve done something stupid,
when, in reality, the only stupid thing they did was to buy shitty
components from Jaycar.
None of my purchases from Jaycar have blown up.

 

[Rod Speed]

Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote

Daniel65 wrote
Rod Speed wrote <Snip

I had an urgent need for a plugpack when lightning took out
the one that powered the security system at the local Salvos.
I replaced it with one from the local Jaycar because the local
Salvos use theirs to catch shop thieves and it is still working fine.
I volunteer at our local Salvos shop, where all money made goes back
into the local community by way of helping out those in need.
We don\'t make a heap of money, even in the best of times a $2000 a
week would have been a stretch, now with limited volunteers forcing
limited opening hours, $500 a week is an extremely good week .... but
we try!!
A couple of months ago, we had some (needy??) person/people break into
the shop and take the $1500-$2000 that was being stored in the shop,
awaiting the Salvos Minister to bank it!!
BASTARDS!!
Especially when you think that if the crooks had ASKED for assistance,
they would have gotten it!!
So, now, I bring each days takings home with me and the Minister banks
them every now and again!!

And, of course, I had forgotten to delete the unrequired 60-70 lines
before I hit \'Send\'! ;-(

That\'s why the death squad has its orders. Byeeee.

 

[Daniel65]

Rod Speed wrote on 30/5/22 7:44 pm:

Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I had an urgent need for a plugpack when lightning took out
the one that powered the security system at the local Salvos.
I replaced it with one from the local Jaycar because the local
Salvos use theirs to catch shop thieves and it is still working fine.

I volunteer at our local Salvos shop, where all money made goes back
into the local community by way of helping out those in need.

I don\'t but I didn\'t bill them for the replacement surveillance
system or the plug pack and they still have my monitor.

We don\'t make a heap of money, even in the best of times a $2000 a
week would have been a stretch, now with limited volunteers forcing
limited opening hours, $500 a week is an extremely good week .... but
we try!!

A couple of months ago, we had some (needy??) person/people break into
the shop and take the $1500-$2000 that was being stored in the shop,
awaiting the Salvos Minister to bank it!!

They dont have ministers, they have officers.

Yes, you are quite correct!
--
Daniel

 

[Phil Allison]

Clocky the Cockhead IDIOT wrote:

=================================

Unlike Jaycar et alia, E14 and RS do not engage in reckless purchasing and can trace stock to factory sources.


That does not mean they are immune to purchasing and selling recovered
and remarked or fake parts.

** It does actually - you lying, POS IDIOT.

** See recent vid on typical Sanken brand fakes from Ebay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvyNIEGI-s

They are clearly faked or remarked used transistors,

** No such thing is clear.

noticed that as
> soon as soon as I saw them - no need for testing.

** Testing is no proof of being genuine.


> You can buy fake anything.

** I sure YOU can, but not me.

A lot of the chips on Ebay and Aliexpress
aren\'t fakes perse but have been recovered, sanded and remarked.

** Prove it.
FOAD idiot.

 

[Clocky]

On 28/05/2022 3:30 pm, Phil Allison wrote:

Phil Allison wrote:
==============

**Jaycar are notorious for selling dodgy, Chinese, re-branded components
that do not meet their published specs. Notably, they were caught
selling MJ15003/MJ15004 transistors that didn\'t come close to the
manufacturer\'s specs. Quite a few techs were caught out. Jaycar were
kind enough to refund their purchase price, but not the time spent
fixing the same fault several times. One of my mates got caught out,
when he was repairing a TV set with dodgy Jaycar parts. He lost 4 hours
ch

*None* of them are immune to sourcing and selling counterfeits
** False argument.

Unlike Jaycar et alia, E14 and RS do not engage in reckless purchasing and can trace stock to factory sources.

That does not mean they are immune to purchasing and selling recovered
and remarked or fake parts.

** See recent vid on typical Sanken brand fakes from Ebay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvyNIEGI-s

They are clearly faked or remarked used transistors, noticed that as
soon as soon as I saw them - no need for testing.

Even possible to buy fake electros too.
22uF, 500V axials turned out to be old 400V radial caps removed and re packaged from used CFLs.

You can buy fake anything. A lot of the chips on Ebay and Aliexpress
aren\'t fakes perse but have been recovered, sanded and remarked.

I can understand why they might remark a chip where a certain revision
or date of manufacture is more desirable but sometimes it\'s just generic
stuff so it\'s hard to know why they bother.