Home Emergency Lights

[me]

That is good to know. I'd imagine there is some form of flame inhibition. At least I would hope. This is one reason I buy name brand lights instead of all the Chinese knock off available on Amazon.

Yes, there's some pretty terrible electrical stuff that crops up on the likes of amazon and ebay uk sites, despite our regulations.

Here's a good example of a mains extension, for the shear number of breaches of British Standards and CE regulations, I think they may have been trying to break the record.. It's off ebay, but I'm sure I've seen them for sale on amazon a few years ago, when it was posted on a "bargain" deals website, until the product listings all got pulled.



It also proves the earth is hollow ;O)

 

[Chetlaham]

I saw that video. Scary thing is, it is more of a norm than an exception on Amazon and Ebay. I've purchased hair dryers off Amazon that literally not only lacked a thermal fuse and high limit thermostat, but the fan motor would not turn right out of the box. Lamps cords with what had to be 28AWG aluminum wire. Live 120 volt cords that have popped out of appliances. Fake NRTL listings. It goes on and on.

Some of the top selling electrical devices are adapters and surge strips without a functioning ground. I'm not kidding, the power strip literally comes with a 2 prong plug, but with 3 prong receptacles on the body complete with shiny metal tongs in each earth slot.


https://www.amazon.com/live/video/091c07691b254a6a8cd32c3be46ee48f?ref_=dp_vse_lbvc_1





An Edison lamp screw shell does not offer or make a ground-






People brag online about how they can now plug their 3 prong AC and what not into a 2 prong ungrounded outlet with few even considering that a danger exists.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Mine was a flashlight which plugged into an outlet we'd had for years...

However it had gotten outmoded enough that I probably just threw it away upon its inability to provide that "portable lighting" in the pitch darkness when we'd had that last recent (night time) power outage...

So it'd just better be candles, though, there I'd been doing the Sabbath Thing lighting too of them every Friday night and Saturday, it's Havdala (beginning of the new week--Shavuah, in Hebrew, it's called)...

Looks like I will have to look into a generator, at least if I want lights, and a working fridge, if I must choose the most important things to keep running when the juice goes out...



-- Dave

 

[phillymatt53]

I saw that video. Scary thing is, it is more of a norm than an exception on Amazon and Ebay. I've purchased hair dryers off Amazon that literally not only lacked a thermal fuse and high limit thermostat, but the fan motor would not turn right out of the box. Lamps cords with what had to be 28AWG aluminum wire. Live 120 volt cords that have popped out of appliances. Fake NRTL listings. It goes on and on.

Some of the top selling electrical devices are adapters and surge strips without a functioning ground. I'm not kidding, the power strip literally comes with a 2 prong plug, but with 3 prong receptacles on the body complete with shiny metal tongs in each earth slot.




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An Edison lamp screw shell does not offer or make a ground-


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Chet, I fully agree with you.
As much as I dislike "modern" consumer products, the one thing that really burns me up is the lack, the ignorance, of the manufacturers making these non-compliant hazards.
They're certainly not up to current Electrical Code Standards, and should be banned.
But what do you want from China, eh?