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Extra shady eBay junk
🕑 Added 2023-09-01 21:48:56 +0000 UTCWhat do you do when one big online retailer rejects your product for having a manufacturing fault?
Why - you sell them on eBay of course, because they really don't give a toss what dangerous crap you sell there.
Here's one of those products with a very silly manufacturing fault involving a slight printing misalignment that defeats a safety function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALm8oomJRg
Comments
Big Clive
This listing was https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354898299564
blakethepatton
Do you have some key words for this product? Seems there's lots of din surge protection devices at or around $15 which last I checked is something like £10... I want to let out some magic smoke and want to make sure I get the correct faulty ones.
Ymir the Frost Giant
Well done for calling this out. Great soldering iron BTW!
Big Clive
Given how simple they are, I get the feeling that the only difference between the grey imports and super-expensive compliant ones is quality control and testing.
Gadgetman
John Ward made a series of videos on SPDs around 2020. He featured similar orange units which had the same flag fault. I can’t remember which video this was shown in but here is the playlist:- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVsHvs2Suqmo0GS6oa9l2kCN-A7QhIQe8
