The hazards associated with cheap chargers - I don't have that much faith in expensive ones either!
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Electrical Safety Council Report on cheap plug-in chargers
Feb 01, 2012
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Good site!
Compact fluorescents exposed:
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was not impressed with this. I probably don't remember all the reasons now (this was a year or more ago), but some which spring to mind:
A sample of 1 each of 6 different lamps is far too few to be meaningful. Their broken cathode test demonstrates a misunderstanding about the mechanism which causes cathode overheating in a fluorescent tube, and thus the test is not testing the right thing. Switched mode PSU's are much more liable to nasty overheating effects from under-voltage running (which they didn't test) than from over- voltage running (which they did run).
and they didnt find any genuine safety issue.
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and I wouldn't really expect them to even if they did the test properly, but that's not an excuse not to do the tests properly.
I've seen far more safety issues with filament lamps causing overheating than I have with CFLs (none).
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