Tony Duell wrote:
It would apperar there are either loopholes in the
standard,
or plenty of
cheap electrical devices (including wall-warts) that have invalid CE
marks on them, in that I've seem enough devices that I don't consider
safe.
If there were enough accidents/injuries etc. then there would be some
repurcussions for both the manufacturer that sold the wart-driven-device
and also the wart maker.
They are clearly cheap and horrible and built to a price but they must
be "safe enough" otherwise they wouldn't be sold any more.
Selling a device as CE branded when the branding wasn't properly
acquired
would clearly land the manufacturer in hot water. A defence of "well it
was
labelled, how was I to know they were dodgy" would not go down at all
well
in court. The alternative of a produce recall is pretty expensive.
That said, I _do_ dislike the fact that they are often glued together
rather
than screwed together: I've certainly rescued devices in the past by
swapping
a cable from a dead wart onto a different but power-compatible one and
that's
considerably harder these days!
I also dislike the fact that all the warts get mixed up and it takes me
ages to find the one that goes with the $foo I want to work with.
Antonio