While using this adaptor to check out the little Chinese air pump, I randomly checked it's earth continuity. There was none... So off comes the cover.
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These things are awesome. They offer so many ways to electrocute yourself that it's almost like a game.
I really need to make a full video featuring all the variants of these and ways you can ruin your day with them.
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These things are awesome. They offer so many ways to electrocute yourself that it's almost like a game.
I really need to make a full video featuring all the variants of these and ways you can ruin your day with them.
They now have the ones with this style of plastic body on ebay but with only two 4mm europlug pins, which will "work", with a lot of slop, on a flat Danish socket or a non-recessed type C socket in e.g. Russia, and on most Italian 10A ones, but it's useless for anything else. It won't go in the French, German or Swiss recessed ones at all and people will probably try to jam it past the shutter on a type G, to no avail. I mean at least it's not pretending to have earth continuity any more!
my earth wasnt connected. pins are also narrower
I come from Japan where essentially all appliances come with ungrounded leads (and I live in NZ where some leads are grounded but some aren't). Can someone please explain to me the danger posed by these death dapters?
I have a 'death dapter' as well without a grounding pin that converts to the AU/NZ plug type, and I use it with an EU LG charger without a grounding pin either that the deathdapter was included with. Is this dangerous?
I can understand plugging in an appliance designed to be grounded into an adapter without a ground pin would be dangerous, but is it dangerous to plug a normally ungrounded appliance into an adapter with no ground plug?
Should be closed down ,how do they even get in here
This shows uk plug system is rubbish.
Just a little thank you, from someone who can no longer work. Boredom os a huge problem been looking for a hobby. Javing add or ADHD as we call it its not easy for me,not a lot interests me but for some unknown reason soldering on pcb's has peaked my interest, especially the hacking part. Got some goodies on tbe way.
Being very alarmed at the exceedingly poor quality and risks involved with these Chinese "death daptors", I've never actually used one and the two I got with some items I purchased on eBay some time ago just got thrown in the junk draw.
Today I thought I'd have a look at how bad the two that I got really are.
I was astonished to find the contacts for the sockets to all the pins were actually screwed together making almost a good connection between the sockets and the pins, but the fingers of the sockets looked to be very flimsy chromed metal, not brass!
Plugging one adaptor into the other confirmed that the pins are not gripped very well at all, and confirmed Clive's findings that you can plug any pin into any socket of the adaptor in any orientation.
The adaptors remain in the junk box, never to be used unless I want the brass pins to machine in order to make something, which is the only reason why the adaptors haven't just gone in the bin!
These adaptors are so bad I am astonished they are not made of conductive plastic!
K Watt
Yes that is my name and yes I am an electrical engineer, now retired.
I have that very one. But so far as I can tell if you use them sensibly they're not too bad. It's the type of person who is angling for a Darwinauszeichnung mit Eichenlaub, Schwerten und Brillianten who needs to be tied to the chair in their presence.
Still, I remember my Exs daughter, who at 18 months suddenly went silent running in my bedroom – kids being quiet is a danger sign. The little tyke was playing tiddlywinks, with citalopram pills, that she'd had to rummage through a drawer for, pull down, pop out of the blister pack… She was sat on the floor, quiet as a mouse, intent on her game – I don't think it ever occurred to her to eat them 🤦♀️ but we double checked anyway. ADs can cause serotonin syndrome in kids.. That girl had the situational awareness of a teaspoon.
I wonder if they were hoping that the prongs on the plug would push the metal pieces in!
how would you replace one of those? My phone charger came with one of them, but I dont know how to replace it because they don't sell the BS1363 female here in my country (my idea was to make a short extender cord, one end AS/NZS 3112 male the other BS163 female and use it like that). Also it arks when you connect it, and it doesn't fit right in my plug, so imagine me fiddling around with it, in the middle of the night, probably very asleep.
Its actually a smart adapter. Its a Darwin approved adapter, used to eliminate the id10ts in life.
Shit mate I've got a couple of these ill be throwing them away thankyou so much ..ya mate in Australia Brad
Made in the U S of A mate – OOPS! Got to laugh – bu**er all else you can do these days.
Thanks for this video, it made me check the earth continuity of the death-daptor supplied with my chinese rework station; no continuity… ESD safe haha. Well, it's fixed now. So that's why I've been blowing a bunch of BS170s…
Hillarious, just got one of these all these years later in my banggood order, mine had no ground pin!
i just was making coffee as i heard a pop – i thought its the draft closing a door
but it was not – and the first next thought was – the adapter i just plugged in
to recharge a powerbank.. and it was – and it smelled aweful.
i opened it up – and there nothing burned, broken or smouldered..
so – what can it be . .
where can i drop a picture of the internals ?