[ShelledPants]

Originally Posted by Reignman

LMAO..fair enough. But isn't everything pretty much made in china now a days?

Yup..this keyboard im using and mouse..I mean they must get something right...eventually :P

I'm not knocking products made in China, almost everything in your computer is made in east asia, and 90% of consumer electronics are built from electronics produced there. The problem comes from quality control based on the product and the end user.

For instance, I can buy Apple headphones, and they are awesome. Made in china. Or, I can buy knock off Apple headphones for half the price, but they suck. The problem is that they are imitation.

The G&P DBAL you've got, is an imitation of the LDI DBAL. The manufacturer of the clone has three priorities. Does it look like the real thing? Does it function similarly? How cheap can I produce it for?

They will reduce the costs at the easiest of those priorities, function, because buyers know it's for airsoft and are more interested in something cheap and aesthetically pleasing.

The function is sacrificed buy buying low grade IR diodes which didn't meet QC for another product, often put in grade F bins because they cannot broadcast at a spectrum within tolerance for the application originally designed. (TL: DR, their failures are sold cheap to avoid wastes on other projects.)