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    From legg@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 12:58:01 2024
    It's come to my attention that chinese products with
    black-white color coded line cords are regularly
    miswired with black-neutral, white-live. These
    will regularly be marked as CE - their sole safety
    qualification.

    Anyone buying chinese hobby-type products with
    mains connection had best be advised to check
    them out, The fault may simply be the polarity
    of the 3-wire line cord.

    In any event, this characteristic can result
    in unsafe 'off' single pole mains switch function,
    single-fault fuse location.

    Even such items as DIY led cabinet lighting can show
    'glow in the dark' behavior, unless corrected. This
    is 'tingle' current flowing in the 'off' state.

    RL

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to legg on Tue Aug 20 18:19:40 2024
    On 20/08/2024 17:58, legg wrote:
    It's come to my attention that chinese products with
    black-white color coded line cords are regularly
    miswired with black-neutral, white-live. These
    will regularly be marked as CE - their sole safety
    qualification.

    A "CE" mark on a product manufactured in China should be considered meaningless: <https://www.cemarkingassociation.co.uk/ce-marking-and-the-chinese-export-logo/>

    --
    Jeff

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  • From bitrex@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Tue Aug 20 18:20:15 2024
    On 8/20/2024 1:19 PM, Jeff Layman wrote:
    On 20/08/2024 17:58, legg wrote:
    It's come to my attention that chinese products with
    black-white color coded line cords are regularly
    miswired with black-neutral, white-live. These
    will regularly be marked as CE - their sole safety
    qualification.

    A "CE" mark on a product manufactured in China should be considered meaningless: <https://www.cemarkingassociation.co.uk/ce-marking-and-the-chinese-export-logo/>


    "The CE Marking Association has held the view for a long time that the
    China Export mark is not valid mark and it is actually just the European
    CE mark that does not respect the dimensions and proportions given
    within the Directives."

    IOW it's just fraud.

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 16:26:24 2024
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:19:40 +0100, Jeff Layman <[email protected]d>
    wrote:

    On 20/08/2024 17:58, legg wrote:
    It's come to my attention that chinese products with
    black-white color coded line cords are regularly
    miswired with black-neutral, white-live. These
    will regularly be marked as CE - their sole safety
    qualification.

    A "CE" mark on a product manufactured in China should be considered >meaningless: ><https://www.cemarkingassociation.co.uk/ce-marking-and-the-chinese-export-logo/>

    It's not so meaningful in other places. Some Brit guys that I worked
    with in Oxford explained that CE means Cant Enforce. They buy reels of
    stickers and slap them on.

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