Cheap Chinese rubbish...

[Commander Kinsey]

An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

 

[Jim Stewart ...]

On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:

An LED striplight.  After 1 month, BANG!  A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it.  What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing.  Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ... <jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

What makes you say they\'re doing that?

 

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...
jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight.  After 1 month, BANG!  A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it.  What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing.  Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

What makes you say they\'re doing that?

I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap
stuff....

 

[Fred]

\"Commander Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote in message
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An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown
in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with
enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work
for a day, and now works if I tap it.

Inductors don\'t usually explode.

> https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:24:37 -0000, Jim GM4DHJ ... <jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...
jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

What makes you say they\'re doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap
stuff....

But you can recycle it. And they use less materials to make it.

Sometimes it\'s ok, sometimes it isn\'t.
Their battery chargers work but may need sellotaping together.
Their LED lights usually work but can give you an electric shock or explode.
Their cameras are 10 times lower resolution than advertised, but you moan and get them free.
Their Li Ion batteries are 8 times less capacity than advertised, but you moan and get them free.
Their meat infects the entire world with a deadly virus.

I do take great delight in seeing how many of their Ebay accounts I can have deleted. So much of my purchase history says \"no longer a registered user\".

 

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 1/2/2021 12:24 PM, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...
jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight.  After 1 month, BANG!  A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it.  What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing.  Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

What makes you say they\'re doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap
stuff....

Much of it made to the specifications of an engineer or designer from
the US importer. Ask for junk, get junk.

 

[rbowman]

On 01/02/2021 10:24 AM, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...
jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

What makes you say they\'re doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap
stuff....

Didn\'t grow up in the \'50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high
quality products as well as cheap junk.

What puzzles me is a lot of the cheap junk requires almost as much work
as the good stuff. I ordered some Photon micro lights from Amazon and
got some ripoffs in the mix. Amazon refunded the cost of the ripoffs but
they almost looked like genuine Photons, almost being the key word. The
LED color was off and the screw looked like they\'d been crafted by a
squirrel but they were so close...

 

[rbowman]

On 01/02/2021 10:32 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Their Li Ion batteries are 8 times less capacity than advertised, but
you moan and get them free.

In a thread in another group Baofeng radios came up for discussion.
There was one listed on eBay with a miraculous 18W output and a 8000 mAh
battery. People on the ham forums were of the opinion a small, handheld
transceiver might put out 18W of RF power for a few seconds before the
melting plastic became annoying.

 

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <i5btldF83c3U1@mid.individual.net>, bowman@montana.com
says...

What makes you say they\'re doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap
stuff....

Didn\'t grow up in the \'50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high
quality products as well as cheap junk.

I think Japan started putting out quality products to ship to the US
when they ran out of all the American beer cans the GIs left over there
from WW-2.

China has a problem in that we are still sending them our junk.

Some China equipment is very good and lots of it junk. Much of the
solid state componens are junk. They seem to be remarked or repackaged
to resemble something else.

Being into ham radio I have some China equipment. Some of it is very
good at a good price, some of it lasts aa few months and quits, some of
it works but maybe not all that great.
You just have to read the reviews and take your chances.

 

[Witherspoon]

On 1/2/21 11:55 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

An LED striplight.  After 1 month, BANG!  A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it.  What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing.  Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

I no longer trust anything Chinese that has to have power running
through it. I ordered six so-called \"20 amp\" 12-24 VDC LED dimmers a
month ago. Out of the two I tried, one burned up within minutes at only
5 amps at 12VDC, and the other burned after several days running the
same. The latter actually went without warning, but at least the first
one was running hot so I actually didn\'t leave the area for fear it was
going to burn. Good thing I have a strong fan to evacuate the fumes,
which would surely be toxic in short order!

None of this Chinese crap is UL listed and thus just about anything can
happen. The ONLY thing I might take a chance on are older ATX power
supplies. At least those have a listing and, although still not UL, it
is better than nothing plus US PC manufacturers don\'t want to be sued
for their computer burning down a house.

 

[Phil Allison]

Commander Kinsey wrote:
========================> An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

** That brown goop all over the place has gone bad.

Light yellow when new, it slowly goes brown with heat and turns a conductive.

Can easily cause explosions just like you have.

You can Google the topic.


..... Phil

 

[rbowman]

On 01/02/2021 12:16 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

Being into ham radio I have some China equipment. Some of it is very
good at a good price, some of it lasts aa few months and quits, some of
it works but maybe not all that great.
You just have to read the reviews and take your chances.

I should buy a Baofeng to play with. If nothing else I could liberate
the RDA1846 and drive it with an Arduino. For serious work I\'ll stick
with my Yaesu FT-60.

 

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <i5cnj4Fcqt7U1@mid.individual.net>, bowman@montana.com
says...

I should buy a Baofeng to play with. If nothing else I could liberate
the RDA1846 and drive it with an Arduino. For serious work I\'ll stick
with my Yaesu FT-60.

I have 2 of the Baofengs. One is a dual band and the other is a 3 band
with the 220 mhz band on it. They work fine for what I use them for.
Mainly just to go to hamfest with several others and keep in touch or
carry it to my repeater to give it a final test before leaving.

For my use the only thing I complain about is the display that resembles
a S meter. It is either full scale or not at all.

 

[rbowman]

On 01/02/2021 09:17 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

I have 2 of the Baofengs. One is a dual band and the other is a 3 band
with the 220 mhz band on it. They work fine for what I use them for.
Mainly just to go to hamfest with several others and keep in touch or
carry it to my repeater to give it a final test before leaving.

Anything on 220 where you are? I sort of forget that even exists.

 

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

Yes I suspect a capacitor was at fault here, Inductors tend to smell short
out and die quite silently.

I often wonder if these new lamps with inbuilt electronics are ever tested
on real life mains voltages, as you do get large spikes up to 1000v at times
on the mains.
Brian

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\"Commander Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote in message
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An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.

Inductors don\'t usually explode.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

 

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

This is not a new thing though is it? Back in the days of the USSR we used
to get a lot of stuff like cassette machines and radios and even black and
whit tvs from Soviet bloc countries. Some were OK, but a little fragile but
one I remember made by a company in the Czech area called Tesla had a
great design and a great sound as a recorder player that ran form the mains.
The sad part was that it seemed to have been manufactured by idiots in that
all the riveted bits were loose, the flywheel was not on straight and the
motor and induction type, was doubling as the mains transformer and
basically over a three month period it gradually fell to bits chewed tape
and finally the brackets that held the piano keys fell of completely.

Like most things, a lot of things are designed well but cheap manufacture
and lack of quality control and corner cutting on components ruin them.
Brian

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On 1/2/21 11:55 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown
in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with
enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work
for a day, and now works if I tap it.

https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg

I no longer trust anything Chinese that has to have power running
through it. I ordered six so-called \"20 amp\" 12-24 VDC LED dimmers a
month ago. Out of the two I tried, one burned up within minutes at only
5 amps at 12VDC, and the other burned after several days running the
same. The latter actually went without warning, but at least the first
one was running hot so I actually didn\'t leave the area for fear it was
going to burn. Good thing I have a strong fan to evacuate the fumes,
which would surely be toxic in short order!

None of this Chinese crap is UL listed and thus just about anything can
happen. The ONLY thing I might take a chance on are older ATX power
supplies. At least those have a listing and, although still not UL, it
is better than nothing plus US PC manufacturers don\'t want to be sued
for their computer burning down a house.

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:55:30 -0000, Birdbrain Macaw (aka \"Commander Kinsey\",
\"James Wilkinson\", \"Steven Wanker\",\"Bruce Farquar\", \"Fred Johnson, etc.),
the pathological resident idiot and attention whore of all the uk ngs,
blathered again:

<FLUSH the subnormal sociopathic trolling attention whore\'s latest
attention-baiting sick bullshit unread again>

--
damduck-egg@yahoo.co.uk about Birdbrain Macaw\'s (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL)
trolling:
\"He is a well known attention seeking troll and every reply you
make feeds him.
Starts many threads most of which die quick as on the UK groups anyone
with sense Kill filed him ages ago which is why he now cross posts to
the US groups for a new audience.
This thread was unusual in that it derived and continued without him
to a large extent and his silly questioning is an attempt to get
noticed again.\"
MID: <be195d5jh0hktj054mvfu7ef9ap854mjdb@4ax.com>

--
ItsJoanNotJoann addressing Birdbrain Macaw\'s (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"You\'re an annoying troll and I\'m done with you and your
stupidity.\"
MID: <e39a6a7f-9677-4e78-a866-0590fe5bbc38@googlegroups.com>

--
AndyW addressing Birdbrain:
\"Troll or idiot?...
You have been presented with a viewpoint with information, reasoning,
historical cases, citations and references to back it up and wilfully
ignore all going back to your idea which has no supporting information.\"
MID: <KaToA.263621$g93.262397@fx10.am4>

--
Phil Lee adressing Birdbrain Macaw:
\"You are too stupid to be wasting oxygen.\"
MID: <uv2u4clurscpat3g29l7aksbohsassufe2@4ax.com>

--
Phil Lee describing Birdbrain Macaw:
\"I\'ve never seen such misplaced pride in being a fucking moronic motorist.\"
MID: <j7fb6ct83igfd1g99rmu4gh9vf610ra3jk@4ax.com>

--
Tony944 addressing Birdbrain Macaw:
\"I seen and heard many people but you are on top of list being first class
ass hole jerk. ...You fit under unconditional Idiot and should be put in
mental institution.
MID: <VLCdnYC5HK1Z4S3FnZ2dnUU7-dPNnZ2d@giganews.com>

--
Pelican to Birdbrain Macaw:
\"Ok. I\'m persuaded . You are an idiot.\"
MID: <obru31$nao$3@dont-email.me>

--
DerbyDad03 addressing Birdbrain Macaw (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"Frigging Idiot. Get the hell out of my thread.\"
MID: <4d907253-b3b9-40d4-be4d-b32d453937e0@googlegroups.com>

--
Kerr Mudd-John about Birdbrain Macaw (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"It\'s like arguing with a demented frog.\"
MID: <op.yy3c02cqmsr2db@dell3100.workgroup>

--
Mr Pounder Esquire about Birdbrain Macaw (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"the piss poor delivery boy with no hot running water, 11 cats and
several parrots living in his hovel.\"
MID: <odqtgc$iug$1@dont-email.me>

--
Rob Morley about Birdbrain:
\"He\'s a perennial idiot\"
MID: <20170519215057.56a1f1d4@Mars>

--
JoeyDee to Birdbrain
\"I apologize for thinking you were a jerk. You\'re just someone with an IQ
lower than your age, and I accept that as a reason for your comments.\"
MID: <0001HW.1EE2D20300E7BECC700004A512CF@news.eternal-september.org>

--
Sam Plusnet about Birdbrain (now \"James Wilkinson Sword\" LOL):
\"He\'s just desperate to be noticed. Any attention will do, no matter how
negative it may be.\"
MID: <rOmdndd_O7u8iK7EnZ2dnUU78TGdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>

--
thekmanrocks@gmail.com asking Birdbrain:
\"What, were you dropped on your head as a child?\"
MID: <58ddfad5-d9a5-4031-b91f-1850245a6ed9@googlegroups.com>

--
Christie addressing endlessly driveling Birdbrain Macaw (now \"James
Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"What are you resurrecting that old post of mine for? It\'s from last
month some time. You\'re like a dog who\'s just dug up an old bone they
hid in the garden until they were ready to have another go at it.\"
MID: <59d8b0db.4113512@news.eternal-september.org>

--
Mr Pounder\'s fitting description of Birdbrain Macaw:
\"You are a well known fool, a tosser, a pillock, a stupid unemployable
sponging failure who will always live alone and will die alone. You will not
be missed.\"
MID: <orree6$on2$1@dont-email.me>

--
Richard to pathetic wanker Hucker:
\"You haven\'t bred?
Only useful thing you\'ve done in your pathetic existence.\"
MID: <orvctf$l5m$1@gioia.aioe.org>

--
clare@snyder.on.ca about Birdbrain (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"\"not the sharpest knife in the drawer\"\'s parents sure made a serious
mistake having him born alive -- A total waste of oxygen, food, space,
and bandwidth.\"
MID: <s5e9uclqpnabtehehg3d792tmll73se0g8@4ax.com>

--
Mr Pounder exposing sociopathic Birdbrain:
\"You will always be a lonely sociopath living in a shithole with no hot
running water with loads of stinking cats and a few parrots.\"
MID: <os5m1i$8m1$1@dont-email.me>

--
francis about Birdbrain (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"He seems to have a reputation as someone of limited intelligence\"
MID: <cf06cdd9-8bb8-469c-800a-0dfa4c2f9ffa@googlegroups.com>

--
Peter Moylan about Birdbrain (now \"James Wilkinson\" LOL):
\"If people like JWS didn\'t exist, we would have to find some other way to
explain the concept of \"invincible ignorance\".\"
MID: <otofc8$tbg$2@dont-email.me>

--
Lewis about nym-shifting Birdbrain:
\"Typical narcissist troll, thinks his shit is so grand he has the right to
try to force it on everyone.\"
MID: <slrnq16c27.1h4g.g.kreme@jaka.local>

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:08:34 +0000, Dim Stewart ... another brain damaged,
troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered again:


> Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....

TYPICAL senile ASSHOLE ...feeding the dumbest crazy troll around! <tsk>

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:24:37 +0000, Dim GM4DHJ ... the brain dead,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blathered again:

I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap
stuff....

You seem to be addicted to junk, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE!