ECN Forum Forums Photo Discussion Forums Photos for General Discussion Improper protection of "wall wart" supply (U.K.)

And additionally if you could open them up you'd realize just how cheaply and dangerously some of these things are put together. We might eventually come to realize again that you get what you pay for. Just because they put it in nice plastics, if it's cheap on the receipt, it's cheap on the inside too.

I open up pretty much everything I own that fails (that I can't return and I have found much worse than that inside of things.

I think they just churn these things out with little / no regard for local regulations.

It's extremely annoying that most of these devices are also designed so that the cable exits through the top when connected to a BS1363 outlet. i.e. they're designed with the earth (ground) pin at the bottom (US style) rather than at the top (BS style)

It's minor, but it's annoying!

Many cheap adaptors sold outside the UK and Ireland for use in the UK/Ireland also come without fuses. It's potentially very dangerous considering that you could be plugging your laptop into a 32A ring (bus) circuit without down-fusing.