This video left me "shaken but not stirred" in a good adrenaline rush type of way.
Two more completely fake products being sold via eBay and circumventing formal safety test channels. Not just fake though, but stupidly and very dangerously fake. They could have made a safe fake product, but instead chose to make one that can injure and cause fires.
The electrically sustained fire at the end was caused by current flowing through the burning carbonising plastic. It would be interesting to test if this arcing would have tripped an arc fault detection breaker. I get the feeling it wouldn't due to their lack of sensitivity due to having to deal with noisy electronic loads.
One day eBay's lack of interest in policing products sold through their website is going to catch up with them. Sometimes I wonder how many people have been injured or killed by the products they facilitate selling. Amazon have stocked this product too (current listing now removed).
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More fake and dangerous eBay products. That's just what we like in this channel. Interesting to know they all come the same style of box that says for Health Life Air Purifier and they all have this little green box with a picture of a house, the little leaf inside going oh so healthy. Now, the previous one had a direct connection from the means to the output fiber.

so the first thing I did with these ones was I put them here to continuity. You hear me snickering I Can't resist stuff like this. It's terrible. Oh, is that a button position I wonder if they use these for other products as well? So this connection is going to the live and it shows continuity to this bristle.

but the other one has continuity. The neutral has continuity through those bristles that is very useful. Do you know why that's very useful? It means you can plug it in like this, making sure. I Don't Go Near those contacts and you can just basically hold lamps across the output like this.

Oh, and uh, test the lamps by holding them across the carbon fibers on the output isn't that useful. Not so useful for we baby touches. It is there. It is light and green.

That's quite good. It does have some functionality. this one has just a single emitter and there's no direct connection to the output. It's probably connected via components though, because that's what they usually are in this Sasha Govia That nothing that one.

Nothing smart Clarity just in case I've got Diode in line. Nothing. but that's a good start, but we'll see what the circuitry is like inside. Let's take them apart and we'll reverse engineer them.

I Know pretty much what's going to be on these because they are very standardly fake. Dangerously fake. I Really don't know why they do this. They don't need to have any connection to the carbon fibers at all.

It's almost like AI designed it. So there's the fake, uh oh, that's quite neat. There's a really fake uh, voltage multiplier module and it's got, uh, four carbon fiber Bissell wires come out. They've just cut off the ones they don't need to use.

uh, the inside of those. Uh, if it's anything like our test, if it's anything like the other ones, there's no module inside there. It's literally a circuit board potted in with just straight electrical connections through. That's also making it quite dangerous.

So this one has two LEDs two resistors and a diode. Oh, you know what? Oh, I know what that is. so it's just luck. The output isn't live so there is a actually, it's a neutral pin.

Let's see, the black is going up to here the black. So it's going to be a diode and a resistors, so it is going to the output the other one. Yeah, it's just purely luck that uh I'll draw the schematic code. but it's most likely that this thing has continuity to the other carbon fiber emitter.

So let's put this on again. and uh, prove it. Thank you So that carbon fiber emitter will be connected to fumble, fumble, fumble. Oh, that is quite hard.
I shall just Ram it up the end since I don't really. I'm not going to be too delicate about this because so I'll be connected to one of these connections. Yeah, so that is effectively directly connected to the neutral pin. So if you plug this into a socket with the wrong polarity, if it was just a different type of plug on it, it could make the output live and right too.

Well, I'll reverse engineer that one afterwards. It is mainly just making LEDs glow. Let's open this one. The nice enough cases.

Um, but the pins are the wrong size. They've made them all the same. Dimension The Earth pin should be bigger in the traditional British scorpion plug. eBay Bypassing safety standards for many years.

Oh, they've actually just left other ones. uh, just hooked up and dangly in there. Oh, one of them will be alive and one of them would be neutral, won't it? just? and they're just basically stuck to each other with tape or glue. Oh, they're just glued to each other.

Oh, that's a little mini explosion in the making. Let's pop this circuit board out. Nice cases. Shame.

they just completely faked what's inside. and they've gone to so much expense that you know if they juice something like uh, this one. this just a super cheap module. Nothing really to it.

They could have put this inside and it would have been a real ionizer, but no, no they didn't. I think they seem to get off and making fake products. Uh, and that's you know. they've even got the little housing for mounting the carbon fiber emitters.

That is such a shame that they've just wasted it like this. This one again a diode, a couple of resistors and the LEDs Okay, I shall reverse engineer these one moment. Please, Reverse engineering is complete. Let's Zoom down and take a look at the circuitry.

It's not very complex, it didn't take long to reverse engineer. They both have the same circuitry they have from a coincidentally I think more than deliberately the live going to this diode that then fits two separate resistors that then feeds the LEDs. Let's see if we can work out the power dissipation of that. So uh, those, uh, it's 240 volts.

so I equals V over R 240 RMS divided by the 120 k equals about 2 milliamps times 240 if they were full wave. So about it's actually just pushing it on quarter watt the rating because it's a half wave. so they've pushed those resistors to the edge. Lovely.

and there each of those resistors is in Sears than LED. They could have used two resistors lower value in series to spread the dissipation. They could have put the two LEDs in the series, but they didn't. The one with the two emitters.

Uh, the module. The fake ionizer module is connected between the live and neutral on the input. here. The literally just tapped right across here.

That's why you can lay a light bulb off them. The other one uh, has it tapped across just random soda points. Instead, they've connected it to that point. So depending the priority how it's plugged in, the ionizer tip is going to be connected to either one of these.
but it's only one diode away from a Mains connection and a non-polarized plug. It could be live, but you really don't know what they're going to connect them to in these. They just basically sold it onto two random Connections in these. Uh, so you just don't know.

The fake ionizer module is literally just a potted circuit board. It will be these inside because I've tested and it's showing the same characteristics. and basically live is connected to two of the carbon fibrometers and neutrals connected to the other two. Very strange.

Why do they do this? It's so close to being a complete and genuine product. The case is there. The circuit board is flippant. That makes an indicator light, but it's useful.

But that little module in there is that they've gone to the extent of potting and resin. Definitely that. it's very strange. Well, there's one more experiment I Wish to try I Think we should share a special moment together? one moment, please.

Okay, one final experiment and you'll be glad to know I'm going to Electro Bim it. So let's plug this in and at that point little green indicator light so not very bright because they've used cheap LEDs But imagine that someone must Bridge these contacts with say this metal file. Yeah, that's put the power out. So at one moment please and the power is back on it tripped the breaker.

Uh, it's worth mentioning that now I've reset that it didn't blow the fuse Is it? uh, it's uh yes. there's not much left too actually. Oh oh right. Tell you what.

Let's unplug that. Let's unplug that. Oh, that's even better. actually.

that's uh, very interesting. Eck Quite perturbed to have to say that was exciting. It was basically Arcane burning the plastic. What a fire hazard! Wow.

eBay never ceases to impress with its non-compliant stuff. I Like all the little fluff that was coming off, that was that a plastic or was that the carbon fiber? Very exciting. But there we have it. Uh yes, let's not.

Let's not do that again. that's the difference between 240 and 120 volt. But uh, yes, they're fake. Very fake.

Dangerously fake. Um, so that's just really an exciting no I blowing the lamp up not to worry. Uh, but that's the sort of things that uh eBay is facilitating the Seal of and saying. Well, it's not our responsibility because it's not us who are actually selling it.


12 thoughts on “Ebay fake product explodes and goes on fire”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jim nelsen says:

    Perhaps these products full of chineseium are intended to reduce the herd so to speak.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Fisher says:

    Very dangerous product, though it caught fire because someone shorted it and then plugged the damaged item back in to have another play with it. Who in their right mind would do that?!!!

    I trust you reported these items to eBay. Realistically these online marketplaces cannot test every 'new' item for sale, so I don't really think it's fair to blame eBay, Amazon etc for these products. Perhaps you should do a video on how you think the problem of fake and dangerous products could be tackled?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Dunmore says:

    The case probably costs more than the internals.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Awesome Dee says:

    Let's do that again. That was the most exciting of your videos.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Greg Goog says:

    I'm wondering how it managed to blow the LED lamp? I mean, there's nothing in there that could raise the voltage?

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nite Flyer says:

    wow… children, pets, the new drapes the better half just put up and oh no, the carpet cleaner that was just filled and the operator that is wearing flats without socks… what a nightmare…

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars currentsitguy says:

    It's as if they actually hate their customers.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars George Klinger says:

    What is that think and what is it supposed to do?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daryl Cheshire says:

    well, self extinguishing plastic…

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gavin H says:

    Sadly, Chinese manufacturing & design has gained a bad reputation because of the rubbish & fakes produced by some. When it's done legitimately, we all use Chinese-manufactured electrical goods with few issues, no worse than any others.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Artillerest 43rd VA says:

    now that is scary! electrocution just waiting to happen. thank you for these videos
    showing the bad side of ebay.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Colin Janes says:

    bring back BSI

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