Fake GHD Platinum Plus S8T262 Hair Staighteners
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- For end users this video will show you if your GHD Platinum Plus S8T262 irons are fake in the first few minutes.
Engineers may wish to watch further, especially the end, where I take a look at the unusual elements.
With no thermal fuses and little in the way of protection I would class these fakes as Highly Dangerous.
Ceramic resistors are common, cheap to make, and reasonably reliable, as they will crack but keep on working, and then whaen they crumble to dust the plates short out, and blow the traces off the PCB, or blow the cable. Note they seem to have forgotten about the plug fuse as well, though I would say the wires only have 5 strands of thin copper like material in them, either CCA, mystery copper or steel.
Seen that type of heater before, from memory they are PTC heaters so as temperature increases so does resistance so they will stabilize at a fixed temperature, the worst fake i had years ago basically had 2 of those and a switch with no electronics. Was hoping the fake days were past but it may have just begun :(....again
think you will find that heater in your hotplate as you use the same one as me
Certainly slowed down as the higher temperature was reached. I have never seen this type of element before and have no knowledge of them but that makes perfect sense.
@@KevsElectricalWorkshop Good point.
They did the wrong model number because they have a few reels of the old fake part number stickers, so want to use them up first, as after all making that fake reel of labels cost money, and buyers will only complain after the sale by a few months, long enough to have gotten a few thousand more sales. Poor castings and mouldings, because they used 3D scans of the originals, so they have resolution problems on the making the moulds, and also the poor resolution shows up as the poor dots in the logo, and the poor finish inside because fixing that takes time. Sold in bulk to the poorer countries, tying in to the GHD brand, but at a much lower price, so they are moving thousands a month. Very popular by me, and you see them advertised by all sorts of sellers, which means the genuine part does not sell at all, because the fakes are a third the price, and probably last a year in use before failing, then get replaced with another fake one.
Interesting Sean. Likely that only a few made it to the UK then.