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They look to be tire balance weights of some sort, and not very good ones. It’s China so if your Xiaomi’s wheel flies off after it develops a shimmy it’s not a big deal.
The weights are circuit breakers and a safety measure. When it gets too hot inside the enclosure, the glue melts, the weights drop down and short-out the entire thing. Then the mains breaker will pop if there is one. Very clever safety system!
Same products are available on real ebay/amazon just price is somewhat higher, at least on AE is easy to pass things like this. Nobody with at least part of brain working will believe that for $3 you can get working 65W charger.
If they were honest and sold them as 5V 2A without the weights, they would actually not be that bad. The isolation distance and transformer are much better than a lot of other cheap chargers around the same price, and it can actually output 2A continuously.
I like this very much - it only supplies the voltage that is not written in the specifications and none of the ones specified. And it contains random automotive weights that don't even match the weight written on them. This engineer is a total anarchist.
Older ones were lead before it was banned by bureaucrats. If not, everyone would have died from lead poisoning and the world would have ended years ago.
@@user-tz3fd8hm4q - At 2 Ampere and possibly 450mV drop voltage the diode would have a power drop of ~0.9 Watt. A PRLL5817 (for 1A average current) would have 150k/W thermal resistance from junction to ambient, so I would use two of them. With 75W/K it would get ~95°C at the junction. Possibly it is worth to check this synchronous rectifier.
@@user-tz3fd8hm4q The cheap ones are just a diode in a different package, after all the lead wire from the big ones contains a lot of copper, much cheaper to have a die mounted on a thin leadframe, and then the other half is pressure welded on top to make contact, followed by the thin layer of epoxy. Amount of copper is that in 1cm of the lead of the big diode, a considerable saving over a million units, plus you can recycle the rest of the leadframe as well, not send to the buyers for them to cut off. Can even use tinned steel as well, as there is no bending involved in assembly after epoxy forming.
It's amazing how cheap they can make these GaNs nowadays ;). They're even wireless and glued to the plastic housing. Nice to see the "new" transformer disassembly gun.
5:43 the drop of solder that stick to capacitor is to balancing the charger in conjunction with the weights. Explanation: when you trow the charger to the trash bin it as to be stabilized to center the trash bin.
That was a great video, I just got a few of these charges and noticed they were just 5v but it's fine for the applications I needed, thanks for opening it
Ok just as I thought. Faker than fake ... All thoso people using these dodgy things. I do wonder if some of the slightly more expensive ones do actually supply 65W vid USB-C PD?
I recently bought 2 brand new Motorola Edge 30 neo phones for my grandparents and both came with 68W USB C chargers. I don't think Motorola (Lenovo) would lie about a power rating :) Though i would have to check the real output.
@@LMB222 Chinese people are humans, just like you and me. Lenovo is a big company with a name and reputation to protect, which means that just like HP or Dell they wouldn't sanction or ship this kind of crap. But they might cut corners or make bad design choices to deliver on aesthetics or price, just like Dell or HP might...
@@Clyde-3195 Is the Motorola brand really owned by Lenovo too? That would suck ass... Wouldn't put it past a lot of companies these days to be out-sourcing the design and manufacture of products while slapping their name on it...
Excellent, good work from a professional. You have revealed the other side of the charger. More videos of other imitation chargers, such as fake Samsung chargers with PD graphics, and I think you have mastered the reverse technique in this work 😂, thank you.
Generally i wouldn't buy or use cheap aliexpress charging bricks, no matter what they claim what they can do, i rather spend a few bucks more on a brand i trust and then get something that wont kill me
I think the mass they used is for automotive purposes and they weight a bit less because the tape that holds them was in the case, so i think that the weights have the right mass if they have the tape on them.
Would bet that "syncronous rectifier" is actually a regular Schottky diode in a 8 pin package. One pin not connected, because a diode is a lot cheaper than an IC to make.
@@DiodeGoneWild with the large copper pads and good thermal connection via the pins it might make it, though you can be sure some manufacturer has made a diode in this package as a way to make money, replacing the low drop ones with fakes.
@@SeanBZA No. Sync rectifiers are expensive because of the analog circuit design. If you clone one and just pay for the silicon cost, it can be cheaper than a diode. I used to contract design a PV panel antiparallel solution, and it turns out using SGT FETs and a clone SR controller being cheaper than using a proper SBD and its thermal solution.
@@bskull3232 If you are a fab diodes are the cheapest product, no masks needed, one diffusion pass, no etching and then aluminium on both sides and copper over. Then scribe and break to make the diodes. Not like the dozen or so different diffusion steps and masks needed for a mosfet. Diodes are basically like a solar panel, does not need great quality silicon, and defects are weeded out in test and recycled.
@@SeanBZA Lithography for power devices is dirt cheap. They use Hg lamps, so the maintenance is incredibly cheap. When you talk about things made in China, there are either technology mastered by the Chinese and dumped at zero profit, or imported stuff that nobody uses. Hg lamp steppers fit the first category. For some $150k you can have a mass production grade Chinese Hg lamp stepper. That alone makes lithography virtually free for power devices made in China. Litho is so cheap that most Chinese SBD devices, even low voltage ones, use a trench gate design (TMBS). And yes, those "diodes" are secretly a self-biased near-native MOS connected in parallel with an SBD. Typically an 8" Chinese trench SBD wafer costs some $170 CNY, an 8" Chinese SGT MOSFET wafer costs $280. But for the same amount of current, the SGT is way, way smaller.
I keep waiting for the day where Clive or DGW are going to take apart a piece of premium chinese engineering and see a note to themselves etched into the PCB
I love your videos. They are very informative and show the true side of the cheap china electronics. If possible can you review the liitokala battery charger. They have very good reviews on ali express and are also of reasonable rate.
i had an €1 counterfeit apple charger 5V 1A , it blew under 10 charges , and i charged an ipod nano , to give you a picture of the chargers performance ....
The funniest thing is, that it actually does not mention the only thing it is really able to provide which is normal USB-Standarf of 5 V with 2 A of current , which is not even that bad if you wanted this.
Seriously, this channel could be about anything, the study of a vegan poop/ fart Vs paint stripper on a Tesla, I mean anything.. BUT… I watch the channel because of that beautiful cat. 😻
IKEA's triple type A 5V output dumb charger that BigClive reviewed several months ago (or a year) is safe enough, capable of long term 15W, and costs the same as this tested one - I bought one myself and think to by more, because well built simple chargers are dissappearing fast leaving only products of questionable quality in the cashiers area in the supermarkets while grate many things in everyday life don't need more power.
OMG A comedy charger. Solid state indeed, with wheel weights that need their own weights added, trouble is they would never reach their stated weight given this "standard". Zeno's bridge problem.
I don't know if you have Action stores in the Czech Republic but they have many electronics at very low, sometimes suspicious prices. It could be interesting taking a look at some of them :) They also have GaN chargers.
Yes i actually have them in the country I also have some more chargers with pd non gan and they seem better built. I did an autopsy and they have good isolation, proper Y cap, sufficient isolation in the transformer and a fusible resistor. Idk about the gan one though, still have to buy it. I get my monthly money in a few days
@@309electronics5is there a follow up on this? Here in Austria we have Action too. Also we have the Shop Tedi here and they also sell cheap china stuff like Action and some products are the same. Chinese stuff from these Shops are just trash. I bought a brazz brush but it turned out to be steel and only coated in brazz. Also bought there a frame for a picture and the measurement are not accurate. What I want to say is, based on my experiences, I would not be surprised if many products are a scam. However, when it comes to electronics I think there is a standard for these products, even if it's low. At least I hope so in my wishful thinking
a friend of mine once got a USB charger from a questionable source. he got the full knocked out of him one day with it. turned out one side of the USB was connected directly to one side of the mains. it's a wonder it didn't fry his telephone
You can actually get safe & real 35w and 45w chargers from Asometech & Essager that are actually well built, the 35w one is around 6-7$ and the 45 is 10-12$ and they are actually probably built & safe chargers for that price based on the teardown I've seen, quite a good value just not this!
The conclusion is: dodgy, super dodgy or what? I can't figure it out by myself. Some part of me tell it's just dodgy from an general electrical safety perspective, but as the overall product, it's very dodgy. It's likely in between. We need to refine the categories.
If it weren't for those weights double sided taped over the board I might go with just dodgy. Those weights hanging there propels this device into the range of super dodgy though. Because there's no way that tape is going to hold forever. Those weights will fall off and short that whole device out.
Even the internal weights are lying, that's hilarious
"Chinese 10 grams" 😆
They look to be tire balance weights of some sort, and not very good ones. It’s China so if your Xiaomi’s wheel flies off after it develops a shimmy it’s not a big deal.
I was waiting for a super dog lol
😂😂😂😂
@@mysock351C You sound American.
Lol... for a second I thought the chinese 10 grams are different that the usual ones
Even a gram is not a gram in chinesium devices 😂
it is almost a gram!
First, we had Chinese watts, then we get Chinese grams, what's next?
@@und4287 Chinese CC for engines, unsurprisingly enough.
It is a relativistic material, ignorant westerner!
Hmm and I am always wondering why after changing tyres they are again out of balance... I suppose chinese grams explains why 😢
The weights are circuit breakers and a safety measure.
When it gets too hot inside the enclosure, the glue melts, the weights drop down and short-out the entire thing. Then the mains breaker will pop if there is one.
Very clever safety system!
🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Very clever application of a crowbar circuit
Sounds like a "crowbar circuit" to me! 🤪
lol nice joke
This is probably what they secretly mean with the lacking "automatic overload protection"
They will, likely, claim "65W" is the model number, not the electrical rating. This seems to be the new ploy.
how do they get around advertising 20V@3.25A then?
That's 20 Velociraptors Carrying 3.25 AA batteries. It was a typo they forgot the other A.
They do not need to do so, because they will go unpunished anyway.
Like that "600DB" horn that doesn't destroy the universe when you operate it?
@@n-steam That's just the serial number. ;)
Best part is wheel balancing weights. Apparently they help balance an electrical load as well as rotational.
It's purpose is for wireless charging :D
Picture this, somebody proudly presents a mod where he balances out their force feedback wheel in a game controller that way. xp
It aids in steady flight, from the users hands to the bin
I laughed a lot at this part 😂😂
That is destined to briefly become a 2000 watt charger in spectacular fashion.
Na, 240VAC by 10A is 2.4KW
This confirms my theory: whatever is printed on a Chinese ebay product is just decoration.
Same products are available on real ebay/amazon just price is somewhat higher, at least on AE is easy to pass things like this. Nobody with at least part of brain working will believe that for $3 you can get working 65W charger.
@@gorjy9610 exactly.
3$ charger, 300000$ insurance claim 🏠🔥
If they were honest and sold them as 5V 2A without the weights, they would actually not be that bad. The isolation distance and transformer are much better than a lot of other cheap chargers around the same price, and it can actually output 2A continuously.
But no proper safety caps, so cRap.
5V 2A at that size? nobody would want that.
You can buy a 5V 2A charger barely bigger than a socket plug.
Yeah, but with the switcher chip at 90.7C with the lid off, it's life at 2A will probably not be the long.
@@paulstubbs7678Or the transformer at > 100° C
I like this very much - it only supplies the voltage that is not written in the specifications and none of the ones specified. And it contains random automotive weights that don't even match the weight written on them. This engineer is a total anarchist.
There is no engineer at all. Just some factory owner who ripped off another design.
These weights are from the automotive sector for balancing tires

🤣
Older ones were lead before it was banned by bureaucrats. If not, everyone would have died from lead poisoning and the world would have ended years ago.
And not very well at that.
@@m3chanistit should be near accurate if u including tape weight that it come with also
I think for wheels they use zinc because ferrum would corrode
I was missing the dodgy at the end, love your videos 🤩👍👍
I expected that too!
@@KeritechElectronics It's not the same without it.
@@Alexelectricalengineering a missing staple piece indeed.
I think the weights glued over the board elevates this charger into the realm of super dodgy.
This charger deserved: Super dodgy!
Oh wow a synchronus rectifier, Really went all out on that design didnt they.
It seems that synchronous rectifier chips got very cheap. Even cheap crappy chargers now contain them instead of a diode.
@@DiodeGoneWild oh man, im going to miss seeing the usual big old through hole schottky frying an electroloytic on the output. End of an era.
Those synchronous rectifiers in those cheap chargers get quite hot, so I don't know if these cheap ones are that much better than a diode.
@@user-tz3fd8hm4q - At 2 Ampere and possibly 450mV drop voltage the diode would have a power drop of ~0.9 Watt.
A PRLL5817 (for 1A average current) would have 150k/W thermal resistance from junction to ambient, so I would use two of them. With 75W/K it would get ~95°C at the junction.
Possibly it is worth to check this synchronous rectifier.
@@user-tz3fd8hm4q The cheap ones are just a diode in a different package, after all the lead wire from the big ones contains a lot of copper, much cheaper to have a die mounted on a thin leadframe, and then the other half is pressure welded on top to make contact, followed by the thin layer of epoxy. Amount of copper is that in 1cm of the lead of the big diode, a considerable saving over a million units, plus you can recycle the rest of the leadframe as well, not send to the buyers for them to cut off. Can even use tinned steel as well, as there is no bending involved in assembly after epoxy forming.
And the verdict? Super dodgy!
Scam...
Fraudulent not just dodgy
Spoiler alert
Yep. Especially looking at that thermal imaging... Gets pretty damn hot in there.
@@somewaresimif it ain fraudulent, it probably already exploded
Seeing weights in a charger is a first for me. It's hilarious how far they go just to scam people. Great video. Really eye opening.
And molten hair dryer was on vacation.
Those iron weights are simply make this mess even more dangerous. Incredible! What a great sucess!
They even ripping you off with the weights while the weights are there to hide them ripping you off with the unit.
Manufacturer was ripped off by supplier.
its ripoffs all the way down!
The imprint said Fe, iron... and do we even (t)rust that? 😂
It's amazing how cheap they can make these GaNs nowadays ;). They're even wireless and glued to the plastic housing.
Nice to see the "new" transformer disassembly gun.
This was one of the most hilarious teardown you made!
5:43 the drop of solder that stick to capacitor is to balancing the charger in conjunction with the weights. Explanation: when you trow the charger to the trash bin it as to be stabilized to center the trash bin.
I was going to buy one of these. thank you for helping us so much!
Love your videos mate, keep up the good work. Sending good vibes from Australia!
I literally just got a delivery notification of the two of these I ordered. At least I know what to expect.
That was a great video, I just got a few of these charges and noticed they were just 5v but it's fine for the applications I needed, thanks for opening it
Fantastic job, very thorough.
Great video! Also as someone that has the same FNIRSI fnb58, the latest firmware (0.68) fixes all of the textissueswithoutspaces.
Ok just as I thought. Faker than fake ... All thoso people using these dodgy things. I do wonder if some of the slightly more expensive ones do actually supply 65W vid USB-C PD?
Yes,but via companies like Lenovo or European - based hardware developers.
The Chinese can do good stuff if you watch them.
I recently bought 2 brand new Motorola Edge 30 neo phones for my grandparents and both came with 68W USB C chargers. I don't think Motorola (Lenovo) would lie about a power rating :) Though i would have to check the real output.
@@LMB222 Chinese people are humans, just like you and me.
Lenovo is a big company with a name and reputation to protect, which means that just like HP or Dell they wouldn't sanction or ship this kind of crap.
But they might cut corners or make bad design choices to deliver on aesthetics or price, just like Dell or HP might...
@@Clyde-3195 Is the Motorola brand really owned by Lenovo too? That would suck ass...
Wouldn't put it past a lot of companies these days to be out-sourcing the design and manufacture of products while slapping their name on it...
@@jnharton They are owned by Lenovo but that doesn't mean they suck. They've been owned by Lenovo since around 2013.
Excellent, good work from a professional. You have revealed the other side of the charger. More videos of other imitation chargers, such as fake Samsung chargers with PD graphics, and I think you have mastered the reverse technique in this work 😂, thank you.
That is the coolest charger tester device I've ever seen😮😮😮
On the plus side, the PCB had great primary to secondary separation.
The moment you started speaking I knew you're Czech. Instant sub.
Neasi 🤣
Generally i wouldn't buy or use cheap aliexpress charging bricks, no matter what they claim what they can do, i rather spend a few bucks more on a brand i trust and then get something that wont kill me
No kidding.
You should be able to trust a branded one to at least not set your house on fire with zero warning.
Aand the conclusion is EXTREMELY DOGGYY😂
To be honest, that was one of the best teardown I ever saw
Even has the yellowed with age look.
Diode gone wild, thanks for your name
Nice and very informative videos. We missed the "super dodgy" at the end. ;)
Just found your channel and I can't help but subscribe, like and notifications on :)
"A little bit suspicious, maybe!" Diode gone wild, 2024.
65 Chinese What ?
will try to buy it
awesome vid, would be cool to see it side by side with the proper 65w gan charger to see just how much is missing and stuff
the added weight is only there to counter the antigravity effect
Weights added to make the device heavier, what a cheat. Great autopsy and device analyses.
Great Video!
so good to know! thank you
Ta vaše výslovnost angličtiny je dost charakteristická, ale jinak anglicky umíte skvělé a videa js ok u taky skvělá, díky za ně!
I didn't know Borat started reviewing things
Thank you, I will buy this charger for my bathroom. This way I can use my phone while im in my bathtub filled with saltwater :D
it is a charger with an explosive power of 65W, they are not lying
I think the mass they used is for automotive purposes and they weight a bit less because the tape that holds them was in the case, so i think that the weights have the right mass if they have the tape on them.
yep, always do the weight test, if it feels uncomfortably light then return and give a 1 star review
Would bet that "syncronous rectifier" is actually a regular Schottky diode in a 8 pin package. One pin not connected, because a diode is a lot cheaper than an IC to make.
I think that a Schottky in such a tiny package at 2A would get way hotter.
@@DiodeGoneWild with the large copper pads and good thermal connection via the pins it might make it, though you can be sure some manufacturer has made a diode in this package as a way to make money, replacing the low drop ones with fakes.
@@SeanBZA No. Sync rectifiers are expensive because of the analog circuit design. If you clone one and just pay for the silicon cost, it can be cheaper than a diode. I used to contract design a PV panel antiparallel solution, and it turns out using SGT FETs and a clone SR controller being cheaper than using a proper SBD and its thermal solution.
@@bskull3232 If you are a fab diodes are the cheapest product, no masks needed, one diffusion pass, no etching and then aluminium on both sides and copper over. Then scribe and break to make the diodes. Not like the dozen or so different diffusion steps and masks needed for a mosfet. Diodes are basically like a solar panel, does not need great quality silicon, and defects are weeded out in test and recycled.
@@SeanBZA Lithography for power devices is dirt cheap. They use Hg lamps, so the maintenance is incredibly cheap.
When you talk about things made in China, there are either technology mastered by the Chinese and dumped at zero profit, or imported stuff that nobody uses. Hg lamp steppers fit the first category. For some $150k you can have a mass production grade Chinese Hg lamp stepper. That alone makes lithography virtually free for power devices made in China.
Litho is so cheap that most Chinese SBD devices, even low voltage ones, use a trench gate design (TMBS). And yes, those "diodes" are secretly a self-biased near-native MOS connected in parallel with an SBD.
Typically an 8" Chinese trench SBD wafer costs some $170 CNY, an 8" Chinese SGT MOSFET wafer costs $280. But for the same amount of current, the SGT is way, way smaller.
Amazing!
I keep waiting for the day where Clive or DGW are going to take apart a piece of premium chinese engineering and see a note to themselves etched into the PCB
Lost it at "this is chinese 5 grams" 🤣
I love your videos. They are very informative and show the true side of the cheap china electronics.
If possible can you review the liitokala battery charger. They have very good reviews on ali express and are also of reasonable rate.
quite educational and entretaining
Were is the video about that black charger? I want to see. 😀
And of course I like this video about charger operation
Nice
I like your soldering gun. I want see it more 😊
I want a video about that soldering gun. What brand it is etc. Maybe even a teardown to see why it is so legendary.
Thank you
i had an €1 counterfeit apple charger 5V 1A , it blew under 10 charges , and i charged an ipod nano , to give you a picture of the chargers performance ....
i stumbled with this video and i have the same one connected to my wall. it doesnt charge fast like promised but it was cheap as dirt lol.
The first thing I notice: it claims to output 20V 3.25A DC when fed 100V 0.5A. It thus receives 50W and produces 65W.
_Interesting..._
Ah, the "Quality-Feel Chunk-of-Steel"! The mark of a real quality product, as all chinese manufacturers know.
0:27 that 100.0 grams (if you remove the wrapper) is just satisfying, someone surely engineered it to be that way :-)
The funniest thing is, that it actually does not mention the only thing it is really able to provide which is normal USB-Standarf of 5 V with 2 A of current , which is not even that bad if you wanted this.
A decently made device with "a bit" overstated params ))
Seriously, this channel could be about anything, the study of a vegan poop/ fart Vs paint stripper on a Tesla, I mean anything..
BUT…
I watch the channel because of that beautiful cat. 😻
Thanksxxx .. i also wanted to buy this.. but not sure.. u show real specs...🌸🌼🌷🌻🌸🌻🌼🌷🤗☺️🧡
IKEA's triple type A 5V output dumb charger that BigClive reviewed several months ago (or a year) is safe enough, capable of long term 15W, and costs the same as this tested one - I bought one myself and think to by more, because well built simple chargers are dissappearing fast leaving only products of questionable quality in the cashiers area in the supermarkets while grate many things in everyday life don't need more power.
OMG A comedy charger. Solid state indeed, with wheel weights that need their own weights added, trouble is they would never reach their stated weight given this "standard". Zeno's bridge problem.
I don't know if you have Action stores in the Czech Republic but they have many electronics at very low, sometimes suspicious prices. It could be interesting taking a look at some of them :) They also have GaN chargers.
yeah we do actually. the charger they have seems quite similar. it's quite cheap tho.
Yes i actually have them in the country I also have some more chargers with pd non gan and they seem better built. I did an autopsy and they have good isolation, proper Y cap, sufficient isolation in the transformer and a fusible resistor. Idk about the gan one though, still have to buy it. I get my monthly money in a few days
@@309electronics5is there a follow up on this? Here in Austria we have Action too.
Also we have the Shop Tedi here and they also sell cheap china stuff like Action and some products are the same. Chinese stuff from these Shops are just trash. I bought a brazz brush but it turned out to be steel and only coated in brazz. Also bought there a frame for a picture and the measurement are not accurate.
What I want to say is, based on my experiences, I would not be surprised if many products are a scam.
However, when it comes to electronics I think there is a standard for these products, even if it's low. At least I hope so in my wishful thinking
9:06 how does skin-effect influence a transformer? I'm curious. Is it because of the high switching frequency? And is it desirable in this case?
So what are some good chargers that you recommend?
Nice video.
Thumbs up from me after the "hell yes" 😅😅😅
Cna you make a video on NI-ZN batteries I ordered a few but have no charger
Aren't those the weights you stick to your car wheel for balancing? :D
Yeah, they are, and even those are a little bit shy of the specified weight :D
They sure are.
I am actually using this exact charger. It does the job for normal/slow charging.
However, I always unplug it when I'm leaving the house, lol
What happened to the molten air dryer?
a friend of mine once got a USB charger from a questionable source. he got the full knocked out of him one day with it. turned out one side of the USB was connected directly to one side of the mains. it's a wonder it didn't fry his telephone
That looks like a very decent USB-C cable you have there, where is it from?
I laughed so hard with these added weights 😂
Hi what thermal camera do you use?
Amazing work, even though I don't understand a single thing about it xD
Where did you get the USB cable you used between the charger and the tester? It seems to be a very nice cable
The USB-C to USB-C cable came with my Fnirsi soldering iron HS-01. I have a video about this iron.
You can actually get safe & real 35w and 45w chargers from Asometech & Essager that are actually well built, the 35w one is around 6-7$ and the 45 is 10-12$ and they are actually probably built & safe chargers for that price based on the teardown I've seen, quite a good value just not this!
Hey! Diode gone wild
Can transistor tester accurately measure the ESR of high voltage mpp capacitor
And what does it indicate in terms of vloss%
yo real expert thanks.
Literally got an AliExpress ad before the video
Clive might call this one an automatic home igniter.
Marvelous, let see fireworks😂
Could you do Ikea Sjoss PD chargers next? The 45W one seems to be great, but the 30W one makes a noise.
Few days ago, I receive this one power supply. And i don't have 10g and 5g weight. But some clay thing.
No video on your 65W charger??
So this is literally a 3 dollar electronic grenade you buy to use at home haha
The conclusion is: dodgy, super dodgy or what? I can't figure it out by myself. Some part of me tell it's just dodgy from an general electrical safety perspective, but as the overall product, it's very dodgy. It's likely in between. We need to refine the categories.
It should be rated as SUPER SCAMMY of course)
If it weren't for those weights double sided taped over the board I might go with just dodgy. Those weights hanging there propels this device into the range of super dodgy though. Because there's no way that tape is going to hold forever. Those weights will fall off and short that whole device out.
@@1pcfred point taken!
I would classify it as: SUPER DODGY + SUPER RIPOFF.