I would empty the tank, how would you know how much Sta-bil to add to a half tank of gas?
I was expecting âOh, now I understand.â Instead you come up with this. I should have known better.
What type of sources do you accept as proof? Maybe not you, but some of the others here might say that an image is doctored and refuse to believe anything they donât already agree with.
There is nothing to understand. You associate Volts with torque rather than RPM. I compared Volts to RPM and that would imply that Amps are torque. So you prefer to compare Volts to torque and Amps to RPM. I donât see how it makes any difference and it seems you just want to argue.
Pictures and tech industry insiders willing to give their names and admit to this supposed practice
Or at least an article in a reputable trade publication
As I recall, my particular bottle of Sta-bil had a metered top area. You squeeze the bottle until it dispenses a pre-measured amount into that upper container, then add to the fuel tank on the yard machine.
I donât know about a concrete block- seems like a stretch. I havenât seen or heard of that but fake parts have been going on for quite some time.
Like the white box auto parts, if you buy the absolute cheapest version of a power supply, itâs not unheard of finding fake inductors, chokes and transformers in places like the PFC or other mitigations (EMC) normally found in a fully functional and compliant power supply.
One area that it seems to happen most is the PFC choke. Why? Because it is an expensive choke and itâs hard to discern if it has an active PFC in practice so they can get away without it. The power supply just consumes more power than it should. Perhaps the original supply that was tested to regulatory compliance had the actual choke. Then they cut corners and the part âlooksâ like the real deal but if you cut it open, itâs just a loop of wire underneath.
There are literally dozens of Reddit, Facebook, other social media or chat group examples with pictures that show the fake part cut open. Lots of educated, electrical minded people discussing what they found.
During Covid, this was a huge issue because manufacturers were desperate for parts and turned to brokers or less then reputable sources just to keep the lights on. Some did it knowingly Iâm sure while others may have been dupedâŠ
I can tell you for a fact that GE washing machines used a concrete block counterweight, back in the late '80s-early '90s.
I had narrowed-down my choices for a new machine to Whirlpool and GE, and I had the salesman open the back panel of both, so that I could take a look. When I saw the concrete block in the GE machine, that solidified my decision to buy a Whirlpool machine. That machine lasted for 14 years, so I guess that I chose correctly.
You guys did a MUCH better job explaining it than @TheWonderful90s did
Those were firm examples, versus âI heard that . . .â
Or, that other chestnut, âMany people sayâŠâ
So a discussion forum or a reviewerâs site your youtube channel of taking apart a Chinese power supply to find a concrete block in it isnât enough for you? And weâre supposed to believe what you write despite you being totally anonymous?
weâre ALL totally anonymous, as you well know
And as the years elapse, itâs clear who is speaking from professional and/or hard-core diy experience, imo