I had a Fuzzbuster and I remember hearing about the substitution. But that was pre-Internet and the review was published in a mag and the truth probably never reached a lot of initial readers or potential buyers.
With the internet, things are much different. If a manufacturer tried that today, it would be a public relations nightmare. Look at the problems for L.I. even though it was acknowledged up front it was a prototype.
Can you imagine the fallout if it were discovered that an LED jammer manufacturer had hidden a diode jammer in amongst their LED's in the head? I can't believe they would take the risk.
After thinking about this some more, I can imagine someone putting a more powerful (and illegal to sell) diode in a head - one that exceeded the FDA class 1 limit.
Unless you use blind buyers and/or you really know who is bringing a unit, or you go in and randomly pull one from Radar Roy's stock, you are not going to know that you have a true retail non-tweaked unit. The manufacturer could supply a tweaked unit to someone (hey, how about me) to go to the test just as if they were a normal walk in. For diode jammers, I don't think any are sold in retail stores and a rep has just as much incentive as a manufacturer to provide a tweaked unit. |