Dangerous Travel Adaptor Part 1
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2014
- Travel adaptor so that plugs from elsewhere can be used in the UK.
It's all bad - no fuse, pins too close to the edge, earth pin is sleeved, pins are too small, pins are plated metal (aluminium?), no shutters on socket holes.
Internally, the contacts are made from pressed steel, and the only connection between the contacts and the plug pins relies on the back of a screw head pressing onto a small tab of metal.
The pin screws are also steel - a metal which has far worse conductivity than copper or brass.
Previous adaptor: • Dangerous Chinese 'Exp... - this is similar but had bare pins and could not be opened without destruction.
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It's shocking how common these are in the UK as they are supplied with imported electronics. People leave these plugged into wall outlets unaware that there is essentially 240V live conductors with no shielding and making an otherwise compliant socket, dangerous.
Aaaah, that's horrible inside and out. Fake pins, LOL at the sleeved earth pin and STEEL for conducting the juice.
Nah, definite reject that one. Please execute it.
As you said, you're going to take it outside and stuff lots of current through it. What would be interesting (seeing as that it doesn't have a fuse in it) is how it handles 32A through those flimsy steel connections in there.
I'll zip-off and watch the execution of that adaptor now. I want flames.... I really want flames out of this. :D
.....Or at least get the steel bits Glowiiiiiiin' in there so that they melt the casing in an unrecogniseable mess. :D
Thanx for showing,
-BoomBoxDeluxe.
_25th October 2014, 01.11_
Got loads of these, twisted the pins and threw them away. The lack of shutters is scary and the closeness of the pins to the edge of the plug for accidental touching of the pins.
I have been using the exact same adapter for months with my label printer.
It's worrying to think about.
These are more dangerous than mentioned.
For E/F plugs, these can bypass the ground connection. That is extremely dangerous.
For everything except types G, M, and D; these have reversed polarity to standard. This makes these extremely dangerous for polarized standards, such as types A, B, H, I, J, K, M, N, and O; along with specialty items.
Plus you can put the plug in between earth and neutral or earth and live!
Sleeved earth too? Wow!
I have my suspicions those pins might be zinc. If you anodise/plate a piece of zinc with copper then heat it up it creates a brassy finish.
I/we had three of those, 1st. my youngest brother brought a water LED fogger with a Chinese wall-wart from maplin - now gone insolvent ☹️, used shaver adapter - lose connection blew fuse- very old adapter with fuse used and coped with poor connection (later found to have blown fuse bypassed with wire!) 2nd. I bought a rechargeable lint shaver from China - came with unusual Chinese charging lead - small figure of 8 IEC connector, curled phone wire and 2 pin flat blade plug - bought a US>UK plug top to adapt it, black clamshell type with fuse, 3rd. I bought a Japanese folding airfoil fan, wall mounted, to put above my bed. The adapters were broken up for scrap metal - mine had the pins moulded in the back, had to use wire cutters and pliers to remove pins (a bit dangerous)
These would make a great Christmas gift.
Can't wait for next video already John.
Whilst doing some electrical safety tests last week, I came across a cloverleaf IEC lead which had a shielded earth pin (like shown in this video) and what looked like a counterfeit fuse, nevertheless it failed the cord test when I placed it on the PAT.
This would be good to shove some current through and see what happens. I can send it you if your interested at all?
copelandaa Yes, please do sent it in. Address at www.flameport.com/contact.cs4
If you connect the European schuko, it does not connect the earth. It actually is impossible to make a connector that accepts both the British and Schuko with the earth. Adapters that do this are two piece ones, first they convert to schuko and then a separate piece converts from schuko to everything else. (here they sell those parts separately as either the socket or the plug is schuko)
A British Earth pin will fit into the Line socket of the adapter.
Been a while since we've heard from you John, hope all is well?
Going through some of your old videos about adaptors. Would love to see a video showing a good example of design/manufacture, by contrast?
Haven't found any good ones - they all allow 3 pin plugs to connect to 2 pin outlets, the majority have pins of the wrong size and spacing, most have no fuse either.
Looks like the Swiss and Italian plugs will not ground on this adapter.(or the French/German ones)!
I can't remember ever seeing a fastener used as a conductor. Not on purpose anyway.
thanks i just got one and its the same inside(lucky i got a uk fuse version to use)
I served in Iraq from 2007-08, we didn't have any casualties from enemy action, but the real miracle is that no one died from electrocution. We had all kinds of different sockets, and the adapters and power strips people were buying were insanely dangerous.
Can you recommend a universal travel adapter, or all they all dangerous crap?
As for the pins being sleeved, I've never seen that in the US or Asia. I can't help but wonder if the UK is the only region that mandates sleeved pins.
The European two-pin plug has sleeved pins. The Swiss three-pin plug (which is very similar to the European two-pin) I think also has sleeved pins (a while back they were also unsleeved).
JaMoBo265 I can't speak for all Malaysian electronics, but I found a computer manufactured in Malaysia whose three pin plug features sleeved plugs. I've still yet to see sleeved plugs in any North American electronics.
In Australia, it's been compulsory since around 2005, I think.
I've always wondered, given that the plug that will be going into this adapter will usually be fused is it useful to have a fuse in the adapter itself?
+BenjaminGoose Although a UK plug fits into this, it's designed so that non-UK plugs can be fitted into UK outlets, and virtually all other plugs have no fuse in them.
The plug will not be fused. Only British plugs are fused and if you have a British plug you will not need this adapter.
screw head touching the power plug 10-4 hahahahaha
I Love Quality Products.
While clearly horrible, are these types of adapters that dangerous when used in conjunction with things like a USB charging adapter? The minimum spacing between power, neutral and earth needing to be increased aside.
Depends on the type of plug on the end, most US plugs that go in these "universal adaptors" - otherwise referred to as death-daptors - don't cover the live holes fully, and it only takes a slightly "innovative" child - and I use the word "innovative loosely - to shove a thin screwdriver in and give themselves a shock off the mains. Nevertheless these death-daptors are illegal to be sold in the UK, and in most cases wouldn't pass basic electrical safety tests
Pants, That's trash!!!
Bottom line/ u get what u pay for...my hair appliance came with one of thes but i refused to use it until investigated thank God!
Thank you for this video, I have a similar adapter that came with a Chinese gadget which will I will be destroying.
Never leave wires in a plug...a child could plug it in....just saying
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