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Fake chips!

So, as part of my VFD project, I’ve been purchasing various ICs from eBay (almost always from China, because they are always the cheapest!) I’m used to counterfeit ICs turning up from time to time, but I’ve run into the same counterfeit IC (with the same ‘batch number’), and the same problem from a couple of eBay suppliers, so I…

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