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How to report an unsafe electrical product ?
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Red Squirrel:
I doubt there is anything you can do.  TONS of dodgy stuff on there.  I would write a review indicating the issues, and that's about all you can do.  Hope they don't delete it.

What I find annoying is how China can send all this stuff here and don't need to go through UL etc... but if one of us wanted to make a product we would need to go through all those processes.  I hate the double standard.
mag_therm:

--- Quote from: uski on November 08, 2020, 03:39:41 am ---
I disassembled it and I believe it is unsafe for the following reasons :
- It only has two small glass fuses (similar in dimensions to these), I am not sure they can safely interrupt the 10A going through this unit...


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According to the data sheet for the fuses of your url, they have 10,000 Amp interrupting capacity at 125V.   UR and CSA
I think these tiny fuses have high capacity ratings because they open so early in the rise time of  fault pulse.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---What I find annoying is how China can send all this stuff here
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Actually, it's us (rather, you) that imports the stuff from China. They're not selling here - you are buying from there.

And, thinking this through a bit, that the stuff doesn't pass approvals generally doesn't matter since you're not selling it to anyone. It's when you sell that the rules step in to protect your buyer.
Red Squirrel:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on November 09, 2020, 10:18:25 pm ---
--- Quote ---What I find annoying is how China can send all this stuff here
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Actually, it's us (rather, you) that imports the stuff from China. They're not selling here - you are buying from there.

And, thinking this through a bit, that the stuff doesn't pass approvals generally doesn't matter since you're not selling it to anyone. It's when you sell that the rules step in to protect your buyer.

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If I go on amazon.ca and it's listed, than as far as I'm concerned, they're selling it here.     It's not any different than if they set up a physical store here and started to sell it.   Why is it that they can sell it, but then if *I* sell it now suddenly it's a problem?  There's a big double standard here.   
drussell:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on November 12, 2020, 06:18:38 am ---If I go on amazon.ca and it's listed, than as far as I'm concerned, they're selling it here.     It's not any different than if they set up a physical store here and started to sell it.   Why is it that they can sell it, but then if *I* sell it now suddenly it's a problem?  There's a big double standard here.
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Do you think that buying something off ebay that comes from china means that ebay is selling it?

You're forgetting that a huge percentage of items available through Amazon are from third party sellers located all across the world, sold through Amazon's "Marketplace".  Marketplace is the latest fad, everyone wants to include sales of everything from everywhere so they can tack on their margins as middleman. 

Even Digikey is setting up for these marketplace shenanigans, likely to their own detriment.
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