You need an IEC cable to plug in a power station, so you go rummaging in your junk drawer and pull one out … They’re all the same, right? It even says 10A on the plugs! You plug it in, turn it on and the unit begins charging. All good. Three minutes later, the smell of melting plastic starts to fill the air and the cable has turned into jello. Quickly, you reach for the power socket and switch it off. Thankfully, aside from some plastic fumes and a now very hot and gooey cable, nothing had succumbed. What happened? Turns out, I’ve just encountered a counterfeit mains power cable. The scary thing is, it wasn’t the only one in my collection – I had eight and it was about time they were all retired to the garbage bin so this could never happen again! Torturing Cables While, at first, I was a little shocked at how close I’d been to starting (yet another) fire in my bedroom, my thoughts then drifted to trying to find out just how bad these counterfeit cables were. Under very unassuming…
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