Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "The Fake Chip Scourge" video.

  1. The supply is supposed to be documented but people fake the work. The incentive and reward is there. Just don't get caught.
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  2.  @CBtronica  pennies add up to dollars.
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  3.  aRGee  rail to rail would be a remarkable achievement for a semiconducting device.
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  4.  @klausstock8020  a half a million operations is a lot. A half a million seconds is almost 6 straight days. I've done repetitive tasks and I'm only good for about 10,000 or so in a week myself.
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  5. Who the hell makes an ice detector with an FPGA? People that know how to rake customers with deep pockets over the coals for tons of cash, that's who!
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  6. People are people the world over. You can't really trust any of them either.
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  7. They'd be better served to just upgrade the electronics today to modern components. At some point you're better off just moving with the tide.
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  8.  @frontiervirtcharter  operational amplifiers are linear analog devices. Linear voltage regulators look like power transistors but they're integrated circuits. The 78XX devices and the LM317 adjustable voltage regulator. Transistors can operate in two states. There's the active region and then saturation. Any transistor not saturated is acting as a linear device.
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  9. Fake chips often do work but they often won't meet original specifications. They won't have the same power handling capacity or signal integrity. Subtle things. Like buying a Rolax watch off a street vendor. It's not the same as the real name brand but the hands move. Nevermind the green stripe you get on your wrist wearing it.
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  10.  @PainterVierax  I've certainly used other op amps and there's no equal for a vintage JRC4558 in an overdrive or distortion box. It is lightning in a bottle. It's what made the original tube screamer a legend. Everything else is pale in comparison.
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  11. It doesn't matter if components are still made. It only matters if someone is buying them. If there's money to be made the counterfeiters will get involved.
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  12.  @rj7855  there are plenty of old parts that are out of production today. I'm sure someday the part shown in the video will become obsolete too. Someone will still need one to keep old gear running though.
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  13. For every one you see there's ten thousand in the walls.
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  14. ​ @PainterVierax  I wouldn't characterize it as free so much as it is fortuitous. There is a cost associated with scrapping electronics. As you point out it is not always possible to get what you want. You just get what you get. You have to be in it to win it but you also have to pay in order to play. In all of the boards I've picked I've only ran across those chips once. But I did manage to salvage 3 off that one board. This is what the real deal looks like https://i.imgur.com/2iZ10TW.jpg
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  15. There are most certainly linear analog integrated circuits.
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  16. What you really want is a vintage JRC4558 But all of those are going to be fake today. I have the real deal here that I salvaged out of a vintage radio. The sound is so rich and thicc. The hammer of the Gods!
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  17. Confidence men gain trust before fleecing their marks.
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  18.  @KabukeeJo  Boeing is an aerospace company. They do not make electronics. They buy electronics from electronics manufacturers, just like everyone else does. No one outsourced anything to China either. That just happened naturally. They remain in a market that the west won't. Economics drives the market. There's nothing that can be done about that. We don't need those old planes but they're nice to have if we can keep them going.
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  19. Fraud is profitable.
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  20. It's good work if you can get it.
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  21.  @KabukeeJo  it is an airplane that relies on obsolete parts. China is the only place where they can be sourced today. Domestic suppliers have moved on from 50+ year old tech now. If the remaining old stock of fighters can still fly a few missions they're not completely worthless. It is never easy to maintain those systems even in the best of circumstances.
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  22.  @KabukeeJo  the work was contracted out to US companies. But that was a long time ago and those companies no longer support that hardware. Those companies may no longer operate in the USA today. Things change.
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  23.  @lyrebirdcyclesmarkkelly9874  don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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  24.  @KabukeeJo  Boeing has never made electronics. That work is subcontracted out. Boeing gets assemblies from suppliers. I doubt Boeing has made an F-15 in quite some time too.
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  25.  @gordonwelcher9598  rail to rail is exceedingly difficult to achieve through a material that is naturally resistive. They don't call them semiconductors for nothing after all.
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  26.  @cyrileo  oh contraire. A fashion faux pas is something one can never live down.
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  27. Caveat emptor
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  28. Because corporate raiders offshored everything in the name of making a quick buck.
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  29. Please heat and beat carefully. kthanksbye
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  30. They were made in the USA when they were first installed. But that was decades ago and things change. The F-15 first flew in 1972. That is a long time ago now. Most of the companies that made the components for those planes don't even exist today.
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