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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 990010" data-attributes="member: 176704">LazarusI spent most of my working life as a safety engineer in the electronic/defence safety business and did a lot of CE marking and related electrical stuff for many companies, and know many of the compliance issues to which you refer - a lot of stuff does come from China, and the markings and documentation can sometimes be rather/very dubious, especially if it comes with the bogus &quot;CE&quot;, or &quot;China Export&quot;, marking (Google that to see what I mean)!Edited: It is very difficult for the average consumer to know what to look for and for him/her to get any real documentation to support anything on or in the box.I have reported several items I received personally to Trading Standards with good reason (&quot;13A plugs with very small bodies and no fuses - saw one of those at my hairdresser's last Xmas and reported it to the manageress. It seems one of her assistants had bought it off ebay, and she was shocked when I told her - and an unshuttered and unfused mains adapter&nbsp; that came with an external USB disk duplicater).I have reported the current problem to the supplier in question, and think I will also contact TS, as I still have the damaged sample and the box in which it came. Replaced it temporarily with another of the same type to get the PIR light working again, but will be replacing that in short order with something more &quot;reliable&quot; (usually buy anything important from CPC Farnell as they have a reasonably good compliance assurance programme and I have never had safety related issue with stuff from them - especially wall-wart USB chargers where there are many very dubious examples on the market in the UK).PS: If anyone wants to know more about some of the dubious/dangerous stuff on the European market then look at the EU Commission's RAPEX web page <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/consumers_safety/safety_products/rapex/alerts/main/?event=main.listNotifications" target="_blank">Rapid Alert System Weekly report listings - European Commission</a> - but I doubt if 1 in a thousand (million?) consumers have even heard of it <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sad.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" data-shortname=":(" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 990010, member: 176704"] Lazarus I spent most of my working life as a safety engineer in the electronic/defence safety business and did a lot of CE marking and related electrical stuff for many companies, and know many of the compliance issues to which you refer - a lot of stuff does come from China, and the markings and documentation can sometimes be rather/very dubious, especially if it comes with the bogus "CE", or "China Export", marking (Google that to see what I mean)! Edited: It is very difficult for the average consumer to know what to look for and for him/her to get any real documentation to support anything on or in the box. I have reported several items I received personally to Trading Standards with good reason ("13A plugs with very small bodies and no fuses - saw one of those at my hairdresser's last Xmas and reported it to the manageress. It seems one of her assistants had bought it off ebay, and she was shocked when I told her - and an unshuttered and unfused mains adapter that came with an external USB disk duplicater). I have reported the current problem to the supplier in question, and think I will also contact TS, as I still have the damaged sample and the box in which it came. Replaced it temporarily with another of the same type to get the PIR light working again, but will be replacing that in short order with something more "reliable" (usually buy anything important from CPC Farnell as they have a reasonably good compliance assurance programme and I have never had safety related issue with stuff from them - especially wall-wart USB chargers where there are many very dubious examples on the market in the UK). PS: If anyone wants to know more about some of the dubious/dangerous stuff on the European market then look at the EU Commission's RAPEX web page [URL='http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/consumers_safety/safety_products/rapex/alerts/main/?event=main.listNotifications']Rapid Alert System Weekly report listings - European Commission[/URL] - but I doubt if 1 in a thousand (million?) consumers have even heard of it :(. [/QUOTE]

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