On Jun 23, 10:33*am, David Robinson
wrote:
I've just bought a replacement camera battery charger from eBay.

Three things about it make me concerned.

Firstly, it gets hot. As in "almost wouldn't want a small child to
touch it" hot.

Secondly, it never said the battery was fully charged. It kept
charging (with the light red, rather than green), long after the
battery must have been fully charged.

Thirdly, the supplied cable has a standard IEC_60320 C7/C8 at one end,
but a UK mains plug without a fuse at the other end. The mains plug is
very small and almost clover leaf shaped - barely 5mm larger than the
pins in any direction.

Is it legal to have a UK plug without a fuse when it feeds a flex? The
plug is marked 250V 10A.

Interestingly, the IEC_60320 C7 plug is optimistically marked 250V 25A
(I doubt it could handle 3A).

Cheers,
David.

I heard a radio 4 prog recently that cited after-market ebay chargers
as a not-uncommon source of house fires.

Remember the function of the fuse in the plug is to protect the flex
against excess current.

Does the flex look like it can handle 30/32A from your ring main?