Buying Quality

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Buying Quality

Postby jimh » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:47 pm

Today I happened today to come an old box of BELDEN wire I bought from MOUSER.COM. The box was printed with Beldon logos and elaborate graphics in several colors, and, in addition, to verify authenticity of the UL approval and category of the wire, the box had a hologram label.

In this era of product forgery and counterfeit products, it was nice to get a something that certainly looks like the real, premium, made-in-USA product instead of some counterfeit wire, made in some backwater Asia country, with no copper, no shielding, and toxic insulation. Sometimes you have to pay a few dollars more for the real stuff.