WARNING RIP OF CLAYMORE BY BENSLEY

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WARNING RIP OF CLAYMORE BY BENSLEY

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This weekend I was asked to update a Claymore. Unfortunately this Claymore is a copy made by Bensley Electronics, and somehow they are using a rip of Claymore 2 circuit board.
If you are offered one of these beware it is not made by me.

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What a cheek !!!,

Be good to post a pic of innards of both stating clearly which is Wonder era and which is Bensley copy?.
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Who are Bensley Electronics ? Google does not know of them.

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Gone I far as one can tell. Or new name.

How to tell:-
Well these,s guy printed there name on the back, also Money second hand Claymores start from £150 - £400 on E Bay.
And on my circuit board a hide a cryptic messages this has none.
Such has " The Doc is good looking" he he

Also note the un-sleeved transformer wire, not safe enough so I would only do that on Proto Types.
Also the early Claymores PCB layout was done using Chartpack tape not a CAD package like this one. The track are to straight a no curves.
Also the Driver Transistors are wrong type for these FET's so unstable and will burn one day.
And a single Negative wire for speaker, bad practice.
And in this "expensive" amp cheap RS knobs, no way.

Next Emitter Follower Tape Output not a true buffer stage using a Op-amp as in my design, cheap and not fantastic.

And much more a poor copy very poor.
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Thanks Colin, even a non techy airhead like me got most of what your posted above,
only identification of Transistors, FET's, Op-amps etc lost me but everything else is pretty obvious. :shifty:
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Not even good fakers leaving their name. LOL.
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Long gone days, just to make sure nobody was taken in by these.
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My memory is fading but wasn't there an argument over who owned the original design and name. You and your partners again.

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Just crap at trusting people I suspect and have been let down again just a few days ago. It must be me.
Using "colin wonfor" ON Google search seems to away take me to a NoName Hifi page on the net.
And after doing lots of thing to help other in the trade and wanting a wee bit of help back I get could a loser by a dealer so called friend.

Doc you are right this so called industry is not for me. Just full of greedy people.

I am out now bye good luck to all who work in the silly game.
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Colin, the answer is to not work with these smooth salesman types and sell direct like the Doc.
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