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 ...
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...