Rubbish and often dangerous stuff from the PRC - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: robint
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2023, 07:05:11 pm
content: Hi GuysI respectfully wish to post a link to this trade electrician guy who tirelessly endeavours to tear down and reverse engineer (before your very eyes) various electrical gadgets imported from the PRC. Some of his vids (700+ over nearly 10 years) show lethal cheap charlie construction. His work on LED lamps and a simple hack-snip turns lifetime use from <month to >3 yearsNo affiliation from me here at all just wish to spread the msg eg garden mains lighting metal fixtures with unconnected PE wires lethal, Fridge ionisers with lethal Ozone production Fake CE labels means China Export and so on 100's more.https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2023, 06:22:05 pm
content: Yes, Clive is fairly well known around here. His videos on down-rating cheap LED lamps for increased reliability and lifespan are quite good too.If you like the safety related stuff, you might want to check out DiodeGoneWild's channel too...https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQak2_fXZ_9yXI5vB_Kd54g/videos. He's done a lot of similar ones on "super dodgy" dangerous imported USB adapters. Irrc, he also did a couple of good ones on 'suicide showers' and water heaters. His accent is rather good too.The two channels compliment each other quite well.

author: Helio_Centra
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2023, 03:28:18 pm
content: I'm a long time viewer of Big Clive.But note that the amount of ozone produced by any ionizer is not gonna be fatal. It would take a purpose built ozone generator in a very small room with very low air circulation to actually convert enough of the O2 to O3 to suffocate you. And you would notice the smell long before it was dangerous.

author: robint
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 03:01:26 am
content: Thnx GyroSorry but your YT linkIf you like the safety related stuff, you might want to check out DiodeGoneWild's channel too... htt://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQak2_fXZ_9yXI5vB_Kd54g/videosis very poor English, barely intelligible. There are a lot like this - ego trippers - no doubt trying to impress folks back home.

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 05:15:17 am
content: Quote from: robint on October 18, 2023, 03:01:26 amHis accent takes some getting used to but his English is fine, and no doubt a good deal better than your Czech. Stop being a racist twat.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 08:26:48 am
content: ^Agreed. His accent is perfecly understandable (I find it quite relaxing) after a couple of minutes. Many of his videos have English language subtitles available anyway so no excuse for such slurs!His technical content tends to be higher and a bit more detailed than Clive's (no diversions off into trying to carbonate drinks and out of date military rations - not a critisism, just not interesting from the electronics point of view), especially his safety teardowns, so worth persevering with regardless.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 08:32:41 am
content: His English may be gramatically correct, but I'm afraid I also find his manner of speaking to be distractingly ridiculousLooks like he started silly and then it stuck to his brand image. Never starttoosilly if there is a risk that you may succeed

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2023, 01:09:31 pm
content: Quote from: magic on October 18, 2023, 08:32:41 amI have read in this forum (IIRC) that his typical cadence and accent is often heard from native Czech speakers.Here in Sweden, while the general English accent is quite good (surely better than mine - an IT native) people from specific regions have a very distinctive cadence - different, but in some way reminiscing of DGW's one.As non native English speaker, and having to daily talk/write to people from China, India, South America, Canada, Greece, Croatia etc. etc. (just the list of nationality I have spoken or listened to today), you just get used to it, apart pathological cases.

author: Ben321
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2023, 04:37:25 am
content: Quote from: robint on October 13, 2023, 07:05:11 pmIn general the cheap Chinese stuff has issues, whether it's too much or too little output, or falls apart when you try to pick it up, or anything else like that.