An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a holeChyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a holeChyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
<jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a holeChyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
What makes you say they're doing that?
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
<jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a holeChyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
What makes you say they're doing that?
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown
in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work
for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Their Li Ion batteries are 8 times less capacity than advertised, but
you moan and get them free.
On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
<jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a holeChyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
What makes you say they're doing that?
On 02/01/2021 17:13, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:34 -0000, Jim Stewart ...I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
<jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 02/01/2021 16:55, Commander Kinsey wrote:
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a holeChyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
What makes you say they're doing that?
What makes you say they're doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high
quality products as well as cheap junk.
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work for a day, and now works if I tapit.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
Being into ham radio I have some China equipment. Some of it is very
good at a good price, some of it lasts aa few months and quits, some of
it works but maybe not all that great.
You just have to read the reviews and take your chances.
I should buy a Baofeng to play with. If nothing else I could liberate
the RDA1846 and drive it with an Arduino. For serious work I'll stick
with my Yaesu FT-60.
I have 2 of the Baofengs. One is a dual band and the other is a 3 band
with the 220 mhz band on it. They work fine for what I use them for.
Mainly just to go to hamfest with several others and keep in touch or
carry it to my repeater to give it a final test before leaving.
"Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote in message news:op.0wlqmsy9wdg98l@ryzen.lan...
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole
blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has
exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it
continued to work for a day, and now works if I tap it.
Inductors don't usually explode.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown
in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work
for a day, and now works if I tap it.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high
quality products as well as cheap junk.
What puzzles me is a lot of the cheap junk requires almost as much work
as the good stuff.
Anything on 220 where you are? I sort of forget that even exists.
In a thread in another group Baofeng radios came up for discussion.
I should buy a Baofeng to play with.
On 01/02/2021 09:17 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
I have 2 of the Baofengs. One is a dual band and the other is a 3 band with the 220 mhz band on it. They work fine for what I use them for. Mainly just to go to hamfest with several others and keep in touch or
carry it to my repeater to give it a final test before leaving.
Anything on 220 where you are? I sort of forget that even exists.
On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:08:34 +0000, Dim Stewart ... another brain damaged, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered again:
Chyyyyna...squandering the worlds resources.....
TYPICAL senile ASSHOLE ...feeding the dumbest crazy troll around! <tsk>
I no longer trust anything Chinese that has to have power running
through it. I ordered six so-called "20 amp" 12-24 VDC LED dimmers a
month ago. Out of the two I tried, one burned up within minutes at only
5 amps at 12VDC, and the other burned after several days running the
same.
TYPICAL senile ASSHOLE ...feeding the dumbest crazy troll around! <tsk>How nice to see you two are still getting along.
This is not a new thing though is it? Back in the days of the USSR we used
to get a lot of stuff like cassette machines and radios and even black and whit tvs from Soviet bloc countries. Some were OK, but a little fragile but one I remember made by a company in the Czech area called Tesla had a
great design and a great sound as a recorder player that ran form the mains. The sad part was that it seemed to have been manufactured by idiots in that all the riveted bits were loose, the flywheel was not on straight and the motor and induction type, was doubling as the mains transformer and
basically over a three month period it gradually fell to bits chewed tape and finally the brackets that held the piano keys fell of completely.
Like most things, a lot of things are designed well but cheap manufacture
and lack of quality control and corner cutting on components ruin them.
Brian
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:00:07 +0800, RheillyPhoull wrote:
TYPICAL senile ASSHOLE ...feeding the dumbest crazy troll around! <tsk>How nice to see you two are still getting along.
You Australian smartasses really are "special". <BG>
The Russian FED 4 camera was extremely robust, even after me, and my dad before me, dropped it many many times on rocks.
Russians make robust items even if they're not the latest technology. Kalashnikovs, for example.
You Australian smartasses really are "special". <BG>Oh Peeler I think you are gorgeous when grumpy
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 08:21:37 +0800, RheillyPhoull, another typical senile Australian twit, blathered:
You Australian smartasses really are "special". <BG>Oh Peeler I think you are gorgeous when grumpy
Idiot!
You Australian smartasses really are "special". <BG>Oh Peeler I think you are gorgeous when grumpy
Idiot!
There's a lot of it about.
On 01/04/2021 11:41 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
The Russian FED 4 camera was extremely robust, even after me, and my dad
before me, dropped it many many times on rocks.
Russians make robust items even if they're not the latest technology. Kalashnikovs, for example.
On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:32:41 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On 01/04/2021 11:41 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
The Russian FED 4 camera was extremely robust, even after me, and my dad >>> before me, dropped it many many times on rocks.
Russians make robust items even if they're not the latest technology.
Kalashnikovs, for example.
I think you could destroy another car if you crashed a Lada into it.
All this crumple zone namby pamby shit they put into cars nowadays, it
just makes the repair bill higher.
Shitty mileage but a BTR-80 would make a great RV.
Commander Kinsey wrote:tap it.
=========================
An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an inductor has exploded with enough force to rupture the casing. Funny thing is, it continued to work for a day, and now works if I
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
** That brown goop all over the place has gone bad.
Light yellow when new, it slowly goes brown with heat and turns a conductive.
Can easily cause explosions just like you have.
You can Google the topic.
.... Phil
On 01/05/2021 12:16 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:32:41 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On 01/04/2021 11:41 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
The Russian FED 4 camera was extremely robust, even after me, and my dad >>>> before me, dropped it many many times on rocks.
Russians make robust items even if they're not the latest technology.
Kalashnikovs, for example.
I think you could destroy another car if you crashed a Lada into it.
All this crumple zone namby pamby shit they put into cars nowadays, it
just makes the repair bill higher.
Shitty mileage but a BTR-80 would make a great RV.
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
** That brown goop all over the place has gone bad.
Light yellow when new, it slowly goes brown with heat and turns a conductive.
Can easily cause explosions just like you have.
You can Google the topic.
I guess they've never heard of warranties. They are refusing to replace it. Right....
On 01/02/2021 10:32 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Their Li Ion batteries are 8 times less capacity than advertised, but
you moan and get them free.
In a thread in another group Baofeng radios came up for discussion.
There was one listed on eBay with a miraculous 18W output and a 8000 mAh battery. People on the ham forums were of the opinion a small, handheld transceiver might put out 18W of RF power for a few seconds
before the melting plastic became annoying
Commander Kinsey wrote:
=======================
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
** That brown goop all over the place has gone bad.
Light yellow when new, it slowly goes brown with heat and turns a conductive.
Can easily cause explosions just like you have.
You can Google the topic.
I guess they've never heard of warranties. They are refusing to replace it. Right....
** There is no consumer warranty on items YOU import from China.
Importers, businesses or individuals, take all risks onto themselves and are responsible for any harm too.
People reselling unsafe Chinese electrical items have got in big trouble here in Australia.
Commander Kinsey wrote:
=======================
https://i.imgur.com/U1AxIet.jpg
** That brown goop all over the place has gone bad.
Light yellow when new, it slowly goes brown with heat and turns a conductive.
Can easily cause explosions just like you have.
You can Google the topic.
I guess they've never heard of warranties. They are refusing to replace it. Right....
** There is no consumer warranty on items YOU import from China.
I guess they've never heard of warranties. They are refusing to replace it. Right....
** There is no consumer warranty on items YOU import from China.Actually, they shipped from the UK, and advertised it as a UK item. Just because the owner of the company lives in China doesn't make a difference. This was a UK to UK sale.
Commander Kinsey wrote:
======================
Actually, they shipped from the UK, and advertised it as a UK item. Just because the owner of the company lives in China doesn't make a difference. This was a UK to UK sale.I guess they've never heard of warranties. They are refusing to replace it. Right....
** There is no consumer warranty on items YOU import from China.
** So you can find the seller- right ?
The UK has strong consumer laws - why not use them ?
** So you can find the seller- right ?Ebay has his registered address, and it's visible to me.
The UK has strong consumer laws - why not use them ?For £3.25? Not worth my bother taking someone to court over.
Commander Kinsey wrote:
========================
** Have you left negative feedback yet ?** So you can find the seller- right ?Ebay has his registered address, and it's visible to me.
The UK has strong consumer laws - why not use them ?For £3.25? Not worth my bother taking someone to court over.
** Have you left negative feedback yet ?** So you can find the seller- right ?Ebay has his registered address, and it's visible to me.
The UK has strong consumer laws - why not use them ?For £3.25? Not worth my bother taking someone to court over.
You can't leave feedback if it's over a couple of months, which is why the feedback system sux. It doesn't take account of things breaking later on.
On 12/05/2021 14:30, Commander Kinsey wrote:
What's the word for connecting something live and causing the connection
to make and break several times rapidly, possibly damaging the equipment?
arc de triumph
If a large inductive load :- fireworks , ball-lightning perhaps
In article <i5btld...@mid.individual.net>, bow...@montana.com
says...
What makes you say they're doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap stuff....
Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high quality products as well as cheap junk.
I think Japan started putting out quality products to ship to the US
when they ran out of all the American beer cans the GIs left over there
from WW-2.
Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high quality products as well as cheap junk.
I think Japan started putting out quality products to ship to the US
when they ran out of all the American beer cans the GIs left over there
from WW-2.
On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 2:16:28 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article <i5btld...@mid.individual.net>, bow...@montana.com
says...
I think Japan started putting out quality products to ship to the USWhat makes you say they're doing that?
I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap >> > > stuff....
Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high
quality products as well as cheap junk.
when they ran out of all the American beer cans the GIs left over there
from WW-2.
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1858?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I rember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.
On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:57:31 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1958?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I remember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.They're still made of either aren't they?
On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1:52:29 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:57:31 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
They're still made of either aren't they?
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1958?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I remember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.
When was the last time that you saw a new, steel beer can?
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup, and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
CK1@nospam.com wrote:
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup,
and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is
poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
My thinking is that steel is less expensive than aluminum. I also
think that some things may attack the aluminum and steel differently.
On Sun, 30 May 2021 17:45:11 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1:52:29 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:57:31 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
They're still made of either aren't they?
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1958?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I remember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.
When was the last time that you saw a new, steel beer can?No idea, I brew my own. And the only commercial beer I've seen is in glass bottles or on draught.
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup, and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 1:01:56 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2021 17:45:11 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1:52:29 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:No idea, I brew my own. And the only commercial beer I've seen is in glass bottles or on draught.
On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:57:31 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
They're still made of either aren't they?
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1958?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I remember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.
When was the last time that you saw a new, steel beer can?
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup, and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
Steel is a lot stronger than aluminum.
OTOH, it cost more to ship.
Aluminum and steel cans both have an internal coating to prevent corrosion. Tomatoes would quickly eat through an unlined steel can. That is why they have a thin, tin plating. Hence their name of 'Tin Cans'.
In article <op.037tlc0amvhs6z@ryzen.lan>, CK1@nospam.com says...
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup, and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
My thinking is that steel is less expensive than aluminum.
Ralph Mowery wrote:
CK1@nospam.com wrote:
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup,
and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is
poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
My thinking is that steel is less expensive than aluminum. I also
think that some things may attack the aluminum and steel differently.
Aluminium drinks cans have a thin plastic lining, so the contents don't
touch the aluminium.
<https://youtu.be/xBQEnVR7y9k>
On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 1:01:56 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2021 17:45:11 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1:52:29 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:No idea, I brew my own. And the only commercial beer I've seen is in glass bottles or on draught.
On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:57:31 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
They're still made of either aren't they?
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1958?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I remember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.
When was the last time that you saw a new, steel beer can?
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup, and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
Steel is a lot stronger than aluminum. OTOH, it cost more to ship.
Aluminum and steel cans both have an internal coating to prevent
corrosion. Tomatoes would quickly eat through an unlined steel can.
That is why they have a thin, tin plating. Hence their name of 'Tin
Cans'.
On 2021-05-31, Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 1:01:56 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2021 17:45:11 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1:52:29 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:No idea, I brew my own. And the only commercial beer I've seen is in glass bottles or on draught.
On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:57:31 +0100, Michael Terrell wrote:
They're still made of either aren't they?
I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1958?) During WW-II they were made of steel. I remember Pepsi in steel cans in the early '60s.
When was the last time that you saw a new, steel beer can?
Just checked my kitchen cupboard, tins of fruit, carrots, soup, and spaghetti, all steel. I'm guessing it's because aluminium is poisonous, one of the reasons I have a steel scuba tank.
Steel is a lot stronger than aluminum. OTOH, it cost more to ship.
Aluminum and steel cans both have an internal coating to prevent
corrosion. Tomatoes would quickly eat through an unlined steel can.
That is why they have a thin, tin plating. Hence their name of 'Tin
Cans'.
If you look up "tin" in a dictionary one of the meanings is tin
plated sheet steel. This is why they are called tin cans.
The tin coating is only exposed on the outside, The inside is
varnished or laminated.
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