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Default Cheap Chinese rubbish

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 ...
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.