In alt.engineering.electrical Andrew Gabriel wrote:
| In article ,
| writes:
| In alt.engineering.electrical Andrew Gabriel wrote:
|| There have been warnings in the UK about counterfeits being found
|| in other parts of Europe (but not as yet in the UK, AFAIK). A picture
|| in a trade magazine shows one of them opened up. There are no overcurrent
|| parts inside, and the toggle is just a plain switch.
|
| How many people ever test the overcurrent aspect, anyway? I'm guessing one
| of these must have failed somewhere somehow to have gotten noticed.
|
| AFAIK, they were discovered by manufacturers investigating how
| their products were turning up on the market too cheaply and
| undercutting the official distributors.

Ah, that would do it, too.

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