Recently an area of problems has been the lead from the supply to the device.
They have been melting when there is excess current due to a fault and then causing fires.
There is plenty of pictures on the net of fires caused by this and similar problems with USB leads causing fires.
A friend who is a local fireman tells me of fires he has attended fires caused by plug packs.
So my critique is the leads do not have a temperature rating on them.
A thing I have repeated a few times and will repeat agian is that these countries have their own test labs that test to our known international standards.
I have worked in those overseas places and worked with those test labs and I say I found them particularly "helpful" to the local manufacturers that I was working for.
I have not seen any action is taken about fires caused by these products despite the fires they are causing.
Wheres as the regime in my local country is critical of even the slightest problem when dealing with local manufacturers here, killing the local industry.
The answer is get it tested over there, its cheaper anyway.
Of course the thing is why buy cheap garbage, there is better readily available.
The larger consumer communities are already witnessing the down side of supporting this crap.
The zener reference is in the IC.
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