- power supply question - 1 Update
| John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Nov 20 10:30AM -0800 On 2020/11/20 7:26 a.m., Ralph Mowery wrote: > A brand name company needs to keep up their image. The small company > produces a product under one name this year and 6 months later they use > anoter name. They do not care about quality control. It is all about liability. A brick and mortar business has a reputation to uphold and they can be tracked down when something goes wrong with a product and as such take extra care to ensure they aren't bothered by lawsuits for dangerous products. Amazon and eBay have no liability and the sellers on these places have no long term connection to the products they sell, so based on price, they will make it as cheaply as possible. Yet it works for the first month or two that the feedback is still valid. After that if it burns your house down or kills the user what do they care? My understanding is that back in the 40s and early 50s TV fires were common in the US until UL was given the power to regulate production (here in Canada we had CSA - same thing) and fires disappeared as a risk in electrical equipment (for the most part). We are back in the wild west (it wasn't really wild, towns regulated guns - I blame Wild Bill Hickock for pretending it was) era for electrical stuff and I forsee a LOT of people being hurt or killed before regulations are enacted (those darn regulations!) to protect populations from unscrupulous producers of cut-rate equipment. John :-#)# -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the USENET newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. MOVED to #7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3 (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out." |
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