Not as much fun as this guy somewhere in south east asia was having.
I was asked by a nieghbour if I could fix their solar light? As you can see from the image, there was an ingress of water/condensation and, the light was long gone to the great WEEE pile in the sky. Originating from Britain's defunked
Poundworld store, it was not made from top quality materials. So why then did someone go to all the trouble of grinding off the chip numbering? From the component layout it's a jellybean solar light chip - like the QX5252. Another identical light was ground in the same way.
Pehaps the IC's were stolen, were on a technology export blacklist or, would be traced back to the slave labor camp were someone is making these for half-a-dime a piece? Whatever, there be a happy man out there
