Anyone had any luck with Chinese Rocker Switches from Amazon?

[Weatherall]

I'm doing some re-wiring and looking at rocker switches. There seems to be a lot of inexpensive options for "marine" switch panels on Amazon that are a lot cheaper than the blueseas switches which are $25-30 per switch. $100 bucks vs $400+ bucks. Has anyone had any luck with any of these? Which ones? Help convince me to not to spend the $400... or not. LOL

 

[Alex_c]

My Amazon special ones are 10 years old, stored outside, still work.

 

[zurk]

yup. they work just fine.

 

[Weatherall]

Nice. Thanks guys. It’s what I thought too. Cheers

 

[Sailfish25]

Just as FYI, all Blue Sea branded rocker switches are actually Carling Technologies switches - look at one at Trotac/Harbour Chandler and you will see that brand name on them.

They are available at Grainger in a plain white box for 60% cheaper than in a yellow Blue Seas box.

https://www.grainger.ca/en/product/...odRecs&cm_sp=IDP-_-CAV-_-RR-_-PR-_-NT-NA-_-EN

 

[Weatherall]

Just as FYI, all Blue Sea branded rocker switches are actually Carling Technologies switches - look at one at Trotac/Harbour Chandler and you will see that brand name on them.

They are available at Grainger in a plain white box for 60% cheaper than in a yellow Blue Seas box.

https://www.grainger.ca/en/product/...odRecs&cm_sp=IDP-_-CAV-_-RR-_-PR-_-NT-NA-_-EN

Awesome, thanks!

 

[brutus]

Lots of blue sea product are made in china(lol) like most stuff we buy now a day. So yes I would buy them, and have and seem to work just fine. If you look on products you would be surprised what comes from china, American icon products are manufactured in china( sad) but 100% true

 

[macro]

Just as FYI, all Blue Sea branded rocker switches are actually Carling Technologies switches - look at one at Trotac/Harbour Chandler and you will see that brand name on them.

They are available at Grainger in a plain white box for 60% cheaper than in a yellow Blue Seas box.

https://www.grainger.ca/en/product/...odRecs&cm_sp=IDP-_-CAV-_-RR-_-PR-_-NT-NA-_-EN

It's cheaper at Grainger? That's a ******* first. Every time im in there it feels like the snap on rape wagon.

Thanks for the tip!