Радиорынок одного китайского городка

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Впечатления (примерно трёхлетней давности) американца от радиорынка одного китайского городка. С фотографиями:

 
 

P.S. Но и на Солнце бывают пятна:

Down on the component floors, you can see sellers using a heat gun to remove the label from a spool of surface mount resistors. They might apply a new label, taken from an empty spool of brand-name resistors.

Elsewhere a man uses pliers to straighten the leads of medium-size power transistors before sliding them into their tubes — good as new. He looks like a man who is whittling.

An ambitious twenty-something uses a clunky $2 soldering iron to attach high-power surface mount LEDs in a multi-element bulb fixture. It will work fine when it’s tested for the buyer, but those LEDs might not last long without a proper thermal connection.