‘Counterfeit’ means ‘in exact imitation of something valuable, with the intention to deceive or defraud’, according to Oxford Languages. You need to be a smart counterfeiter, unless you can find a customer who blindly trusts what you say. How many battery users have you met, who know the first thing about avoiding counterfeit batteries. Or for that matter could tell you what amp-hours are?
Creating Counterfeit Batteries by Changing Labels
Kurdistan 24 news alerted us to a battery fraud in their West Asian country. National security officials have raided a storage facility there, and confiscated 11,000 fake auto batteries from Turkey and Iran.
There may be nothing inherently wrong with those batteries technically speaking, but someone has changed the labels stating their amp-hour rating. This essential performance measure confirms the power that the battery puts out, and how long it should last without a recharge.
The amp-hour rating in a battery confirms how long it will deliver a particular current. After that, the voltage drops and it no longer performs properly. It follows that batteries with higher amp-hour ratings should deliver power for longer, which is an important criteria for purchasing decisions.
The Importance of Avoiding Counterfeit Batteries
Another local Kurdish news channel, Rudaw.Com, also picked up the story and relayed this announcement by security officials. “The ampere number of the batteries was changed from 25-30 to 60 on the stickers. The company sold more than 20,000 of these batteries in the Kurdistan Region’s markets.”
This is a serious infringement, and a violation of consumer rights to receive what they purchase. Counterfeit battery labels are easy to reproduce, may look professional, and can easily fool a quick glance. The safest way of avoiding counterfeit batteries, is to purchase them from a supplier you can trust.
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