It looks like our hobby is not remotely alone since this is in el Reg today: https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/fake_ds18b20_sensor_chips/ <https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/fake_ds18b20_sensor_chips/> Justin > On Jul 14, 2020, at 02:26, silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl wrote: > > > On 14/07/2020 05:01, dave_m wrote: > >> I assume these chips have been previously programmed or are fakes. > > I wouldn't be highly surprised. Especially that they seem to get posted sporadically in various, relatively small batches[*]. I also acquired some. Presumably from the same seller. Didn't have time to check whether they can be programmed yet. > > > * - I imagine finding unused stock (NOS) of no longer produced devices is not something that happens every couple months. Looks more like harvesting them from old equipment, in which case I find it hard to believe that they aren't programmed. > --Apple-Mail=_87DE068E-43E0-4255-BC91-BCED66AC5568 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It looks like our hobby is not remotely alone since this is in el Reg today:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/fake_ds18b20_sensor_chips/" class="">https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/fake_ds18b20_sensor_chips/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""> <div>Justin</div> </div> <div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 14, 2020, at 02:26, <a href="mailto:silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl" class="">silverdr@wfmh.org.pl</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On 14/07/2020 05:01, dave_m wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I assume these chips have been previously programmed or are fakes.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I wouldn't be highly surprised. Especially that they seem to get posted sporadically in various, relatively small batches[*]. I also acquired some. Presumably from the same seller. Didn't have time to check whether they can be programmed yet.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">* - I imagine finding unused stock (NOS) of no longer produced devices is not something that happens every couple months. Looks more like harvesting them from old equipment, in which case I find it hard to believe that they aren't programmed.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html> --Apple-Mail=_87DE068E-43E0-4255-BC91-BCED66AC5568--Received on 2020-07-14 14:00:03
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