Image credit to Ben Cooper. He bought 3 TBS Triumph antennas from Aliexpress, 2 turned out to be fake. Please buy only from reputable vendors.

Thanks for the advice Oscar!
I have a pair of those antennas boughted on aliexpress... They works well but u will check them to see if they are original or fake...

I don't want to encourage counterfeits, but it would be interesting to test the fake to the real ones as far as performance and reliability.

(08-Oct-2018, 09:02 PM)voodoo614 Wrote: I don't want to encourage counterfeits, but it would be interesting to test the fake to the real ones as far as performance and reliability.

LOL, I was thinking both of those thoughts as I was browsing the pictures!  I have often wondered how much product being "direct shipped" from the country of manufacture is actually made on the mythical Fourth Shift?

Is AliExpress going to stand by the sale?

I've been curious what the knock offs look like!! Good find!

(08-Oct-2018, 09:02 PM)voodoo614 Wrote: I don't want to encourage counterfeits, but it would be interesting to test the fake to the real ones as far as performance and reliability.

So, is the term counterfeit synonymous with clone?  Or is counterfeit used for retailers/manufacturers that are more nefarious? 

Generally I'm not anti-clone in the world market at large.  But since the UAV market is so small and development time and costs are high, I'm pretty anti-clone in the our market.  General Electric or Ford Motor Company, as examples, can endure market loss to aftermarket/cloning much more so than our hobby.

I think counterfeit means it pupports to be the actual product of the item "cloned". In this case down to the TBS branding.

(09-Oct-2018, 01:54 PM)sloscotty Wrote: I think counterfeit means it pupports to be the actual product of the item "cloned".  In this case down to the TBS branding.

Yup, makes perfect sense!

(09-Oct-2018, 01:45 PM)Krohsis Wrote: So, is the term counterfeit synonymous with clone?  Or is counterfeit used for retailers/manufacturers that are more nefarious?

Counterfeit usually applies to a product which is trying to pass itself off as an original item and is made to look near enough identical to the original manufacturers one including original manufacturer trade marks and logos etc. Examples are the above TBS antennas and things like knock-off Rolex watches.

Clone generally means "look-a-like" or very similar to another manufacturer product but often with a different name and without the original manufacturer logos etc. on but which isn't trying to pass itself off as the original item. It is just based very closely on the same design. Examples are the Realacc Martian II frame (very similar to the ImpulseRC Alien but not identical and with a different name) and things like aftermarket "pattern" automobile parts that are a direct replacement for OEM parts but which are made by another company.

(09-Oct-2018, 01:59 PM)SnowLeopardFPV Wrote: Counterfeit usually applies to a product which is trying to pass itself off as an original item and is made to look near enough identical to the original manufacturers one including original manufacturer trade marks and logos etc. Examples are the above TBS antennas and things like knock-off Rolex watches.

Clone generally means "look-a-like" or very similar to another manufacturer product but often with a different name and without the original manufacturer logos etc. on but which isn't trying to pass itself off as the original item. It is just based very closely on the same design. Examples are the Realacc Martian II frame (very similar to the ImpulseRC Alien but not identical and with a different name) and things like aftermarket "pattern" automobile parts that are a direct replacement for OEM parts but which are made by another company.

Yup, sloscotty already gave me a tune-up

As far as clones.....friends don't let friends buy clones in this market....it's just WRONG.....IMO of course.....

(09-Oct-2018, 02:00 PM)Krohsis Wrote: Yup, sloscotty already gave me a tune-up

As far as clones.....friends don't let friends buy clones in this market....it's just WRONG.....IMO of course.....

Yep, I was too slow pressing the reply button. Kept getting distracted from pressing send by real work 

I don't know where else to share this. 

Are you sharing the internal of the TBS?

Hello all,

A bit confused regarding the font to judge for a clone.

My Diamond and Immortal V2 appear to use the same font shown on the clone. The immortal V2 came with my crossfire tx lite.

Same clone font shown on the TBS website.

https://www.team-blacksheep.com/products...cktx_antv2

Thanks for the help.

Zippy

(04-May-2020, 06:32 PM)Zippy Wrote: Hello all,

A bit confused regarding the font to judge for a clone.

My Diamond and Immortal V2 appear to use the same font shown on the clone. The immortal V2 came with my crossfire tx lite.

Same clone font shown on the TBS website.

https://www.team-blacksheep.com/products...cktx_antv2

Thanks for the help.

Zippy

You probably don't need to worry. Especially if it came with your purchase of Crossfire. I haven't heard anyone cloning the immortal T or Diamond yet.