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Re: Fake Square D Circuit Breakers (RECALL) Andrew Gabriel 05-30-2008
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Posted by Andrew Gabriel on May 31, 2008, 7:19 am
        phil-news-nospam@ipal.net writes:
wrote:
>| There have been warnings in the UK about counterfeits being found
>| in other parts of Europe (but not as yet in the UK, AFAIK). A picture
>| in a trade magazine shows one of them opened up. There are no overcurrent
>| parts inside, and the toggle is just a plain switch.
>
> How many people ever test the overcurrent aspect, anyway? I'm guessing one
> of these must have failed somewhere somehow to have gotten noticed.

AFAIK, they were discovered by manufacturers investigating how
their products were turning up on the market too cheaply and
undercutting the official distributors.

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Posted by on May 31, 2008, 10:06 am
| phil-news-nospam@ipal.net writes:
wrote:
|>| There have been warnings in the UK about counterfeits being found
|>| in other parts of Europe (but not as yet in the UK, AFAIK). A picture
|>| in a trade magazine shows one of them opened up. There are no overcurrent
|>| parts inside, and the toggle is just a plain switch.
|>
|> How many people ever test the overcurrent aspect, anyway? I'm guessing one
|> of these must have failed somewhere somehow to have gotten noticed.
|
| AFAIK, they were discovered by manufacturers investigating how
| their products were turning up on the market too cheaply and
| undercutting the official distributors.

Ah, that would do it, too.

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