Dangerous children's novelty light

[canduit]

There's been talk of tat Chinese imports of late so thought I'd pipe up. I've been asked if I can fix this... Extra low voltage power supply line and neutral pins snapped off leaving them not protruding, but exposed with shutter open, in a child's room. Pins are poor quality and appear undersized.

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• canduit
• 9 Mar 2015
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• canduit
• 9 Mar 2015
• 1

 

[OwainDIYer]

But it must be safe it's got a CE mark.

 

[winston1]

That is the trouble with sleeved pins. Can be considerably more dangerous that the original unsleeved variety.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Never mind - we need things like this to guarantee our way of life and to allow the shareholders of eBay and Amazon etc to prosper from the sale of dangerous tat like that.

And if a child dies - so what - their life was never going to be as important as keeping eBay etc free from responsibilities.

 

[IJWS15]

But it must be safe it's got a CE mark.

It also has that other well known mark that tells you to be very careful and not believe anything you cannot verify - "Made in China"

 

[Astra99]

I seem to recall another regular contributor to this forum indicated on another thread that CE stood for Chinese Export!!!!

 

[RF Lighting]

clicky thingy

 

[kai]

One way is to impose an flat-rate electronics levy on both Ebay and Amazon, on the Polluter Pays principle - that could help regulate the situation.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

http://www.bs1363.org.uk/html/chargers.html