Re: Chinese power transistors
It is not just eBay that sells Chinese stuff. Now there is a risk with that source that you will get fakes. But most semiconductors and batteries of whatever brand are now made in china.
Try looking at stuff on the Farnell website - they have a note at the end of each product that is the last country in which substantial manufacture took place - and the majority by far is China. RS use the two letter CN to denote that.
Apart from resistors, which seem to come mainly from India.
The west is becoming progressively de-skilled in the race to the product cost bottom.
Angry of Abingdon.
Craig
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