Inside a fake un-trippable circuit breaker.

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bigclivedotcom

bigclivedotcom

3 жыл бұрын

This is uninspiring. It's a circuit breaker that looks and feels just like the real thing, but has no fault detecting ability at all. Why would somebody even make something like this?
These fake breakers weigh 53g (2oz) per module. Typical UK breakers weigh 100g (4oz) per module. But weight is not a guarantee of functionality.
It's made worse by the fact that there is no standard test to see if a circuit breaker is tripping at its rated current. There are specialist testers that use a low voltage transformer to test breakers, but they usually have to be removed from equipment for the test. A type C 32A breaker would also need to be tested at a minimum of 160A.
The comment about industries who might appreciate un-trippable circuit breakers breaks down as follows:-
Welders - particularly mobile welders often have an issue where the high inrush current to their equipment causes tripping of power circuits. Modern inverter welders usually contain an inrush limiting circuit to try and minimise this while also providing protection to the rectifier and capacitors.
General contractors / General builders. Some of the worst wiring I've ever seen has been done by "all-trade professionals".
Millwrights - The biggest electrical carnage I was sent to fix was caused by factory maintenance operatives who had progressively replaced all the fuses in line with a machine with wire links. The final straw was when they pushed a star-delta contactor in - bridging all three phases, and took out power for the whole factory, while explosively vaporizing many of the cables in the machine's control panel in the process. I wish there had been a camera to catch the incident happening, and then my expression when I arrived and opened up the control panel to find the charred remnants of the wiring and copper plated interior.
Unscrupulous landlords. They're a thing in the UK. Usually cramming as many tenants as possible into squalid little rooms with butchered wiring and no fire escapes. Slightly less of an issue now than it used to be.
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@trustnoone81
@trustnoone81 3 жыл бұрын
Finally a schematic even I can reverse-engineer.
@munzlp
@munzlp 3 жыл бұрын
I feel the same
@zachbruner481
@zachbruner481 3 жыл бұрын
What’s off and what’s on?
@bbol745
@bbol745 3 жыл бұрын
Electrical for dummies! lol!
@TheToastPeople
@TheToastPeople 3 жыл бұрын
lol
@dedr4m
@dedr4m 3 жыл бұрын
Scratches head..... The thigh bone connects to the what now? . . . . . . . . Jokin.... but ya had to check didn't ya?
@peterdevreter
@peterdevreter 3 жыл бұрын
That gives a whole new meaning to the term "kill switch".
@SenselessUsername
@SenselessUsername 3 жыл бұрын
It's an effective circuit breaker though. It will break any circuits in a 10 yard radius, by fire.
@leodavis5886
@leodavis5886 3 жыл бұрын
Literally
@Dee_Just_Dee
@Dee_Just_Dee 3 жыл бұрын
@@SenselessUsername It protects the neighbourhood by demolishing the faulty house.
@jed-henrywitkowski6470
@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 жыл бұрын
I literally lol.
@zevfarkas5120
@zevfarkas5120 11 ай бұрын
Wicked response! ;)
@WarpRulez
@WarpRulez 3 жыл бұрын
You have to admire the engineering needed to make that lever feel authentic.
@jcdentonunatco
@jcdentonunatco 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly. But its pathetic that someone would take the time to fake this, when they clearly could have just made it correctly and safely. These people should be charged
@donaloflynn
@donaloflynn 3 жыл бұрын
@@jcdentonunatco Electrically!
@SalahEddineH
@SalahEddineH 3 жыл бұрын
@@jcdentonunatco Yeah, some engineer was probably offered a small bounty for making a mechanism that sounds and feels convincing, then handed it off to the company who used it to make light switches that look like breakers. Cheers!
@chromolitho
@chromolitho 3 жыл бұрын
@@jcdentonunatco No, there's usually a useful difference in cost between correct and fake. They also saved money by not having it certified by whatever electrical institute. It does have to be convincing, and it probably usually is. As far as charging them is concerned, I think an electric chair would be satisfactory.
@bluecar5556
@bluecar5556 3 жыл бұрын
@@chromolitho The electric chair has to use this fake circuit breaker to make sure the electricity gets the job done. Make sure they know that before hand.
@dryalga4000
@dryalga4000 3 жыл бұрын
As someone who has Electrician as his profession, this scam disgusts, angers and scares me at the same time. Thank you so much for bringing this to light.
@piksqu9544
@piksqu9544 3 жыл бұрын
As an apprentice in home automation, this confuse me as how someone could place as much effort into making such horror of a scam.
@ShadowEclipse777
@ShadowEclipse777 3 жыл бұрын
@@piksqu9544 money above all else is how
@weeardguy
@weeardguy 3 жыл бұрын
Me too. The worst is that I just know for sure that there are people who buy this... Just like all the unsafe phone-chargers and such.
@aliveandwellinisrael2507
@aliveandwellinisrael2507 2 жыл бұрын
@@ShadowEclipse777 Yep. China hasn't made the progress they have by playing fair
@electriccat3519
@electriccat3519 3 жыл бұрын
It's like selling empty fire extinguishers. Unbeliveable.
@Raptorman0909
@Raptorman0909 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, but with the charge needle glued to full!
@guyh3403
@guyh3403 3 жыл бұрын
@@widdermann100 or uranium
@peterg1448
@peterg1448 3 жыл бұрын
i wouldn't put it past those sorts of people to put powdered magnesium in
@Gaspedaleks
@Gaspedaleks 3 жыл бұрын
or perhaps a flammable fire blanket.... oh wait, we should probably not give the manufacturer of this circuit breaker any ideas.
@Anvilshock
@Anvilshock 3 жыл бұрын
Using butane as the propellant.
@readysteadywhoa
@readysteadywhoa 3 жыл бұрын
So an appropriate schematic would be two wires converging into a symbol of a person on fire? That one's probably near the back of the ISO standards
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 3 жыл бұрын
Or just a simple switch symbol with an explosion symbol next to it.
@pentachronic
@pentachronic 3 жыл бұрын
@@bigclivedotcom Like one of AvE stickers "Not to be operated by fuckwits". In this case "Not to be installed by fuckwits"!!
@arthurmann578
@arthurmann578 3 жыл бұрын
Sad, but true! 👍👍
@snakezdewiggle6084
@snakezdewiggle6084 3 жыл бұрын
@@pentachronic just so long as you "keep your .... in a vice" :)
@--Nath--
@--Nath-- 3 жыл бұрын
@@pentachronic this one was created by fuckwits.. evil fuckwits at that.
@esquire9445
@esquire9445 3 жыл бұрын
“Stil On” is the brand name on the fake one... the irony, yup it’s “still on.”
@antilogism
@antilogism 3 жыл бұрын
When I first glanced at it I was thinking Siemens, by the shape and color.
@fatassshibe7285
@fatassshibe7285 3 жыл бұрын
@@antilogism i assume it was done on purpose to confuse people into thinking they're legit, since most people don't give anything more than a passing glance to products, unless they y'know.. actually care
@AAAyyyGGG
@AAAyyyGGG 3 жыл бұрын
A close up of the front would be nice to let us see the label; so we can recognise if we come across them anywhere...
@isaacsrandomvideos667
@isaacsrandomvideos667 3 жыл бұрын
Esquire probably did that on purpose, against lawsuits
@oBseSsIoNPC
@oBseSsIoNPC 3 жыл бұрын
They probably called it that way for legal purposes, if anybody ever found a way to sue them, they call that a "warning label" indicating a translation error, meaning "ALWAYS ON" what a loophole!
@simonbone
@simonbone 3 жыл бұрын
I suspect after this, the improved model from the Chinese factory will include a 50-gram concrete weight as part of the internal design.
@Blitterbug
@Blitterbug 2 жыл бұрын
Horrifyingly I think they actually believe this is a perfectly valid device and aren't actually out to disguise it. After all, it 'breaks the circuit' when you flip the switch!
@Mavendow
@Mavendow 2 жыл бұрын
@@Blitterbug Nah, they know what they're doing.
@JohnFekoloid
@JohnFekoloid 2 жыл бұрын
Not funny for us in Nigeria. We get shit like this all the time. Nothing is ever as it should be.
@aliveandwellinisrael2507
@aliveandwellinisrael2507 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mavendow Definitely. How else do you think China has made the progress they've managed to make in such a short time? It's by stealing intellectual property, trapping developing nations with infrastructure deals and via the manufacturing of dangerous crap like this
@codegeek98
@codegeek98 2 жыл бұрын
I believe it's conventional to use iron bolts they find laying around the factory rather than investing in molding the concrete
@kenabi
@kenabi 3 жыл бұрын
all i'm hearing is that clear bodied breakers should become the norm.
@projectartichoke
@projectartichoke 3 жыл бұрын
If there even are any clear plastics that have the same physical characteristics, heat resistance, non flammability, physical strength, etc...
@Basement-Science
@Basement-Science 3 жыл бұрын
@@projectartichoke Yeah that's probably why noone makes them except sketchy chinese manufacturers. I think this one is Acrylic, which is not great in many ways for this.
@Fridelain
@Fridelain 3 жыл бұрын
Glass should do it
@Flashy7
@Flashy7 3 жыл бұрын
yeah, with a sticker of the picture of a real circuit breaker stuck on the inside of an empty shell :D
@jakegarrett8109
@jakegarrett8109 3 жыл бұрын
I just drill holes in mine before I add a fan, so I know what's in them and mine are good other than they get a little toasty...
@LakeNipissing
@LakeNipissing 3 жыл бұрын
When the house burns down, at some point the supply wires will be consumed in the fire, and then the circuit will be broken... so mission accomplished. The circuit breaks, just with a different type of thermal delay. "STiL ON" is an appropriate brand name, because no matter what, it will be.
@Kirillissimus
@Kirillissimus 3 жыл бұрын
This is just a matter of compatiability. If you would have all the wiring with plugs and junction boxes from the same manufacturer then it would all be fine. In case of an overload one of the wires somewhere near some of the screw terminals would just act as a fuse and the layer of dirt would extinguish the arc. In case of a slight overload the terminals itself will become hot and will start to loosen up creating an arc that would burn off the connected wire and the rest would go just the same way as in the fast overload scenario. As you can see everything is perfectly fine and no extra protection is needed.
@Leroys_Stuff
@Leroys_Stuff 3 жыл бұрын
Slow blow
@procrastinator1842
@procrastinator1842 3 жыл бұрын
Everything is a fuse...
@77thTrombone
@77thTrombone 3 жыл бұрын
@@Leroys_Stuff ultra. Ultra slow blow 💨
@blower1
@blower1 3 жыл бұрын
@@Leroys_Stuff My kind of girl
@degiguess
@degiguess 3 жыл бұрын
What kind of psychopath would make this? This is the electrical equivalent of putting a razorblade in an apple then leaving it in a grocery store.
@cardboardboxification
@cardboardboxification 2 жыл бұрын
China
@ulrichs.3228
@ulrichs.3228 3 жыл бұрын
I was looking at the title and thinking: "Is this one of those toy gadgets where an arm reaches out of the box and flips the switch back?" Alas, that would've been safer, too.
@ThomasBomb45
@ThomasBomb45 3 жыл бұрын
This would be super hilarious in a circuit breaker
@CollectiveSoftware
@CollectiveSoftware 3 жыл бұрын
Version 2: put some dead weight in there so it has the right "heft"
@wimwiddershins
@wimwiddershins 3 жыл бұрын
Yeh, bit of industrial waste.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 3 жыл бұрын
Lead.
@tazz1669
@tazz1669 3 жыл бұрын
Don't give them ideas
@echothehusky
@echothehusky 3 жыл бұрын
@@bigclivedotcom Lead is too valuable for that!
@stevenspmd
@stevenspmd 3 жыл бұрын
@@bigclivedotcom But that would kill any free shipping :-)
@BrendanPerkins
@BrendanPerkins 3 жыл бұрын
Omg that's the only thing I've ever seen that's scarier than clowns.
@richardturton6900
@richardturton6900 3 жыл бұрын
Nothing is scarier than clowns!
@readysteadywhoa
@readysteadywhoa 3 жыл бұрын
@@richardturton6900 Except for clowns with inappropriate circuit breakers installed.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 3 жыл бұрын
Except Part-P clowns.
@HugoDahl
@HugoDahl 3 жыл бұрын
Who do you think installed those? 🤡
@timberwolf1575
@timberwolf1575 3 жыл бұрын
@@HugoDahl The unpainted clowns are the scariest.
@666Tomato666
@666Tomato666 3 жыл бұрын
Clive, that's a non-resettable 100A "slow-blow" fuse ;)
@tarnvedra9952
@tarnvedra9952 3 жыл бұрын
"Arc quenching done by luck." That would look great on the packaging.
@aliveandwellinisrael2507
@aliveandwellinisrael2507 2 жыл бұрын
The Chinese do love their luck superstitions
@thedevilinthecircuit1414
@thedevilinthecircuit1414 3 жыл бұрын
Cheap circuit breakers give a whole new meaning to the term "Fire Sale."
@alexanderkupke920
@alexanderkupke920 3 жыл бұрын
If it at least were cheap "circuit breakers"
@ArcticProxy
@ArcticProxy 3 жыл бұрын
We're having a FIRE sale!! 🔥
@dadillen5902
@dadillen5902 3 жыл бұрын
I bought an reproduction of the Olympic flame, not the torch, just the flame. Would the qualify a a fire sale?
@Mr._Sandman
@Mr._Sandman 3 жыл бұрын
Mehdi is probably watching this and wondering about his breakers not popping now.
@mollago
@mollago 3 жыл бұрын
Ahhh that's a good point. He should take a look inside those insane breakers he got.
@ITubeTooInc
@ITubeTooInc 3 жыл бұрын
Who's Mehdi?
@joelthefrog1
@joelthefrog1 3 жыл бұрын
@@ITubeTooInc He's on here as Electroboom, he does a lot of experimental electrical work
@mollago
@mollago 3 жыл бұрын
@@ITubeTooInc My neighbour
@hitopsful
@hitopsful 3 жыл бұрын
He is michael faraday reincarnated as a fearless Iranian genius bad ass Edit: Iranian genius bad ass, not Indian genius bad ass
@NicksStuff
@NicksStuff 3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in China: "I expose stupidly overly-engineered western switch"
@jamiegaming-ms8xl
@jamiegaming-ms8xl 3 жыл бұрын
i ruined your 69 likes
@U20E0
@U20E0 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, why the complex circuit when ____/ ____ does the job
@leroyusa935
@leroyusa935 3 жыл бұрын
Greed exposed in China. Apparently with a population of more than 1.4 billion, life is pretty much worthless. Counterfeit and fake items plays an important role in China's pursuit of an economy when the CCP does nothing to stop this practice. Remember that this is China's CCP goal, to get their cut of the greed and corruption.
@NicksStuff
@NicksStuff 3 жыл бұрын
@SlimyKlerburt It's a great switch
@alexmiller3349
@alexmiller3349 3 жыл бұрын
@@leroyusa935 ok CIA
@draven4464
@draven4464 3 жыл бұрын
That man who took that shit out probably saved a lot of lives just by intuition from holding it, so kudos to him.
@davemackinnon6487
@davemackinnon6487 3 жыл бұрын
Quite honestly, that’s terrifying. I wonder how many people have lost everything to something like that?
@acmefixer1
@acmefixer1 3 жыл бұрын
I know a guy who lost his whole house to a real breaker that malfunctioned. Much more than a year to rebuild his home. Insurance company paid much of it.
@ablebaker8664
@ablebaker8664 3 жыл бұрын
Considering how often christmas tree light displays turn into pyrotechnics even without fake breakers... 'a lot' would be my guess.
@letsfixit4404
@letsfixit4404 3 жыл бұрын
wow someone should be going to jail for this. It possible they have killed people with these or will
@andreasproteus1465
@andreasproteus1465 3 жыл бұрын
It is just a DIN rail mounted SPST switch. It does not claim to be a circuit breaker. Look at the diagram stamped on the side. It is not their fault if your so daft as to use it as a circuit breaker.
@Ragnar8504
@Ragnar8504 3 жыл бұрын
@@andreasproteus1465 It does say "C6", which implies the existence of a C-curve tripping mechanism.
@Tootal74
@Tootal74 3 жыл бұрын
*Knowing sellers* should be tried for (attempted) manslaughter!
@simonruszczak5563
@simonruszczak5563 3 жыл бұрын
A when convicted given the electric chair via one of their own circuit breakers. Poetic justice.
@r0cketplumber
@r0cketplumber 3 жыл бұрын
Arson.
@mallardtheduck1
@mallardtheduck1 3 жыл бұрын
"Attempted manslaughter" is an oxymoron... Manslaughter basically means "killing somebody without intent", you can't "attempt" that.
@cjay2
@cjay2 3 жыл бұрын
sellers should be eliminated permanently. Then you'd see a reduction in these things.
@gs425
@gs425 3 жыл бұрын
@@mallardtheduck1 today, Stuart, you have won the internet. That is despite being in one of the best comment sections on the internet.
@GamingAlgen
@GamingAlgen 3 жыл бұрын
this is a attempted murder as far as I'm concerned
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 3 жыл бұрын
The term for something like this is manslaughter.
@shimarlie1
@shimarlie1 3 жыл бұрын
@@bigclivedotcom Actually, it's criminally negligent homicide.
@jamesnewcomer4939
@jamesnewcomer4939 3 жыл бұрын
Hmmm....I'd go with arson. There might not be anyone around when 'it' happens.
@joshuahudson2170
@joshuahudson2170 3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesnewcomer4939 Your point makes it worse. If you commit arson and somebody dies as a result, the law says Murder 1.
@jamesnewcomer4939
@jamesnewcomer4939 3 жыл бұрын
@@joshuahudson2170 That's my point though; IF nobody were hurt you could probably get him on arson...but if somebody were to get hurt you go for arson AND negligent homicide (or murder, if local laws make it that). For murder 1 you might need to prove that the breaker was faked with killing someone as the goal (establishing intent): if you can prove it then good, but if you can't you need to limit it to what you can prove. I am not a lawyer or familiar with local law on arson, though: so you may be spot on!
@Volvith
@Volvith 3 жыл бұрын
"Looks quite smokey, looks quite dark." ... I mean the guy says he was FIXING a generator. Betting 50$ that this was the reason it needed fixing, or at least, more fixing than it would otherwise have.
@beyondwhatisknown
@beyondwhatisknown 3 жыл бұрын
Someone overloaded the generator, the fuse didn't blow, and therefore cooked the inside of the generator's wiring or boggeged down the engine.
@GreenJimll
@GreenJimll 3 жыл бұрын
"Why would somebody even make something like this?" Well the answer "there are loads of arseholes on this planet" would seem to cover it.
@BAD_CONSUMER
@BAD_CONSUMER 3 жыл бұрын
Cheating is a cornerstone of Chinese culture. Its just part of the game, safety be damned.
@eyeswideshut7732
@eyeswideshut7732 3 жыл бұрын
@Duke Hugh Johnson I agree, not only that it takes little local businesses away...
@eyeswideshut7732
@eyeswideshut7732 3 жыл бұрын
@Duke Hugh Johnson I agree, not only that it takes little local businesses away...
@rich_edwards79
@rich_edwards79 3 жыл бұрын
The Chinese are not our friends.
@bobnope457
@bobnope457 3 жыл бұрын
@@rich_edwards79 Whoever made these is no ones friend.
@Nono-hk3is
@Nono-hk3is 3 жыл бұрын
Yikes. Modern version of a penny in a fuse receptacle.
@MandrakeFernflower
@MandrakeFernflower 3 жыл бұрын
Or a nail in the VCR fuse holder
@bitelaserkhalif
@bitelaserkhalif 3 жыл бұрын
Or glob of solder in place of fuse
@BobWidlefish
@BobWidlefish 3 жыл бұрын
@@MandrakeFernflower BOFH style!
@jeffsweeney312
@jeffsweeney312 3 жыл бұрын
Much worse. Deceptive as well as deadly.
@Mr._Sandman
@Mr._Sandman 3 жыл бұрын
_Well, jam a penny in there!_ 'Penny'll start a fire.'
@matthewwilkes6162
@matthewwilkes6162 3 жыл бұрын
My dad used to work in school facilities services, one of his jokes was always suggesting toughened glass for the fire alarms to stop kids setting them off. Similar energy.
@myparceltape1169
@myparceltape1169 3 жыл бұрын
Believe me, the kids would look on that with delight. They would have a new challenge to play with.
@VictorF0326
@VictorF0326 3 жыл бұрын
1:49 The words "it felt light" hit me as heavy as a truck when you opened the CB.
@AndyFletcherX31
@AndyFletcherX31 3 жыл бұрын
I'd like to chain the factory manager into a small room with some of these then overload the breakers and let them experience the resulting fire. FFS these are supposed to be safety devices!
@pascalvonrotz6555
@pascalvonrotz6555 3 жыл бұрын
I like this idea from you I mean it's stupid and evil To make fake fuses
@__aceofspades
@__aceofspades 3 жыл бұрын
Thats the worst part. You can argue that counterfeit airpods, shoes, etc dont really hurt people, at worst people are tricked into spending more money on an inferior product. But when the item is unsafe, its a big issue, and the people who purposely designed this to fool others should get a lifetime of lashings.
@U20E0
@U20E0 3 жыл бұрын
@@pascalvonrotz6555 I can’t click read more... fix this KZfaq.
@markbernier8434
@markbernier8434 3 жыл бұрын
@@__aceofspades Google counterfeit aircraft parts. Even scarier.
@groundzero_-lm4md
@groundzero_-lm4md 3 жыл бұрын
Because if your landlord is constantly having to go over to reset the breaker because someone is running 3 space heaters, this is an option for preventing that. Not a good option but an option none the less. Also they are cheaper so a contractor may use these to save a buck.
@SigEpBlue
@SigEpBlue 3 жыл бұрын
I don't even have the words for what should happen to the useless, contemptible human being who created that absolute death-trap of an "electrical device".
@nokia5359
@nokia5359 3 жыл бұрын
@SigEpBlue: The word you are looking for is "Chinese." the plural form is "made in china". The negative form is "its chinese made" no need to thank me.
@conwaytomlinson277
@conwaytomlinson277 3 жыл бұрын
Electric Chair?
@Mar1s3z
@Mar1s3z 3 жыл бұрын
@@nokia5359 The more accurate term for those words I think are "Copied by the Chinese" or "QC'd by the Chinese". Since a lot of stuff nowadays is produced in China, but "Decent quality stuff" build there have never been QC by the Chinese... Never... Nah...
@rockman1942
@rockman1942 3 жыл бұрын
@@nokia5359 thank you, you said all I want to said
@Jimmy-B-
@Jimmy-B- 3 жыл бұрын
@@nokia5359 at least someone had the nutsack to come out with it!
@kevvywevvywoo
@kevvywevvywoo 3 жыл бұрын
the sad thing is that most of these things only get discovered when someone needed it to work
@bschonec
@bschonec 3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the few views on KZfaq where I gasped when he disassembled the fake.
@_______DR_______
@_______DR_______ 3 жыл бұрын
Wow that is probably one of the most disgustingly shameless things I have ever seen. Seriously who even thinks to make a non-functional fake of a product that exists for the purpose of preventing electrical fires/death
@rtos
@rtos 3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately China never pays for any of its fraud; what does that tell about countries who are still making deals with China instead of penalizing it?
@mohamedrafi5807
@mohamedrafi5807 3 жыл бұрын
Bro, this is isolator, not MCB
@ClickItYT
@ClickItYT 3 жыл бұрын
@@mohamedrafi5807 But it has the symbol for a 3 phase circuit breaker and claims to have a C6 characteristic.
@johnmurrell3175
@johnmurrell3175 3 жыл бұрын
See my comment above the generator may be current limited either by control, electrical design or the prime mover stalling so it will not be able to trip a circuit breaker.
@tailgunner2
@tailgunner2 3 жыл бұрын
You would be surprised. Being an electrician, I have come across fake breakers before. The U.S. government does a decent job keeping such products out, but go outside the U.S. and there is an abundance of cheap imitations. So much so, all the legitimate manufacturers have a "report fraudulent products" links on their websites. The big three of course is Square D (Aka Schneider Electric) EATON, and Siemens. I like to believe the source of such a black market are molding companies that lost their contracts, but the machinery stayed, so the managers kept things running.
@donoteatmikezila
@donoteatmikezila 3 жыл бұрын
That is so spooky. When you pulled the side off I gasped.
@josephsvensson6637
@josephsvensson6637 3 жыл бұрын
I work in a home improvement store and I have seen disconnect switches that look and fit exactly like their circuit breaker equivalents and are used for AC disconnects. Those ones have no overcurrent protection but they are clearly marked as such. I wonder if this started as something similar and they neglected to mark it...
@EricWillis77
@EricWillis77 3 жыл бұрын
WOW that’s just crazy. I’ve never seen that before. Thanks for making people aware of this. Have a great day!!!
@kennethclifford1863
@kennethclifford1863 3 жыл бұрын
Ok, I will be pulling the "breaker" out of the Chinese diesel generator at work for an inspection. Thank you for posting this.
@Seiskid
@Seiskid 3 жыл бұрын
Same. This is frightening.
@millomweb
@millomweb 3 жыл бұрын
"Chinese diesel" - what a worrying thought !
@electriccoconut
@electriccoconut 3 жыл бұрын
Don't use any China products in the industrial sector use genuine Honda products the differences is in the price sound easier starting heaver buy direct from Honda site or dealer. Chinese crap is really obvious if you take the time to look.
@a9503128
@a9503128 3 жыл бұрын
Don’t buy anything you don’t know physically where it’s made, it’s all ripped off turds. Buy British and support your locally produced items. What your paying “extra” for is supporting local jobs, proper wages, the ability to go see where they’re made if you want.
@PaulAnslow
@PaulAnslow 3 жыл бұрын
Replace the breaker. Better to be sure than sorry.
@oldmgbs2
@oldmgbs2 3 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to go to jail.
@caramelldansen2204
@caramelldansen2204 3 жыл бұрын
only poor people can go to jail the gears of capitalism are lubricated with the blood of labour
@Altgottt
@Altgottt 3 жыл бұрын
@@caramelldansen2204 sadly true
@sterlinglombard
@sterlinglombard 3 жыл бұрын
or Gaol!
@pacman10182
@pacman10182 3 жыл бұрын
@@caramelldansen2204 that's not capitalism
@bledlbledlbledl
@bledlbledlbledl 3 жыл бұрын
Even if someone did go to jail for it, it would end up being some scapegoat who didn't even know what he was building while the big fatcat who arranged it and took the profit would claim he had no idea that his peons were faking it.
@Internutt2023
@Internutt2023 2 жыл бұрын
I am in the process of building a DIY isolation transformer and wanted to put a quality circuit breaker in it. I saw the "low budget" models on Ebay, but decided to go to a real electronics supplier and buy an actual one that was only set me back a whopping $17.50 USD. I think I made a good choice after seeing this video. Thank you for the important "look see" inside!
@fonziebulldog5786
@fonziebulldog5786 3 жыл бұрын
The ones behindd that should end up in a prison for a long time.
@bertbox69
@bertbox69 3 жыл бұрын
electric chair, fused by his own circuit breakers, see how confident he is then.
@jmd1743
@jmd1743 3 жыл бұрын
@@bertbox69 "Do you feel lucky?"
@maxj9204
@maxj9204 3 жыл бұрын
Jeezus. Imagine making the decision to make and release those, knowing full well that your decision could have a body count. Everything about this is terrifying.
@haywoodyoudome
@haywoodyoudome 3 жыл бұрын
Made in a country were human lives are valued less than the products they're forced to make.
@gasdive
@gasdive 3 жыл бұрын
Boeing Max... Its not just China.
@Sashazur
@Sashazur 3 жыл бұрын
@@gasdive The Max plane is/was defective too, but the reasons it ended up that way are entirely different from the story of why this “breaker” exists.
@dev0random
@dev0random 3 жыл бұрын
What's worse, it's not easy for a regular electrician to test these breakers.
@PrecludeLP
@PrecludeLP 3 жыл бұрын
It's terrifying to think that someone might install this. Whoever did this is an awful human.
@suprlite
@suprlite 3 жыл бұрын
Probably done by someone who also sells fire fighting exquipment.
@U20E0
@U20E0 3 жыл бұрын
@@suprlite oh god no. Fake fire extinguishers is not what humanity needs right now. Not at all. Even worse fake carbon monoxide sensors.
@calculator1841
@calculator1841 3 жыл бұрын
@@U20E0 No you missed what he was saying. People selling fire extinguishers want to have fires occur so people want them. Hench, this 'breakers'.
@antilogism
@antilogism 3 жыл бұрын
This stuff seems to be getting more common. I got a blown assembly back from a company in China (a part return). There was a hole through the end of one of the several 6.3x32 fuses and it looked like a jet of plasma must have shot out of it. The other fuses were of the same type and brand so I opened one. It was simply a nicely printed ceramic tube with a wire through it; as opposed to an engineered element. The wire was bent at the ends and the paper-thin end caps just pressed over the wire. No solder. No quenching media. No arc-stops and let-through from hell.
@fchanMSI
@fchanMSI 3 жыл бұрын
Scary, thank you bringing this issue up.
@techpriestsalok8119
@techpriestsalok8119 3 жыл бұрын
You see people this is the true 5 amp circuit breaker. If the current exceeds five amps the circuit breaks something. Mission accomplished.
@TekgraFX101
@TekgraFX101 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's disturbing for sure. Goes to show how experience can trip the "something's not right" mental sensor.
@jakepullman4914
@jakepullman4914 3 жыл бұрын
Unless your mental sensor has ALSO been replaced with a fake. You'd never know.
@TekgraFX101
@TekgraFX101 3 жыл бұрын
@@jakepullman4914 What?
@ChrisD4335
@ChrisD4335 3 жыл бұрын
Man I want this a circuit breaker I never have to worry about tripping, i'll just hook up all my high draw things to the one outlet and never have to worry again!!! Such a good idea!
@linggiman
@linggiman 3 жыл бұрын
Good of you for making this video, I hv no idea this is going on..Thank you
@afeathereddinosaur
@afeathereddinosaur 3 жыл бұрын
This really looks like the marketed product, even the click is the same when you use the little lever, how devious.
@nekonatauzanto1758
@nekonatauzanto1758 3 жыл бұрын
I love it. My tenants will never know the difference.
@Unknown_Ooh
@Unknown_Ooh 3 жыл бұрын
@@nekonatauzanto1758 Theres laws that you have to follow to make sure the properties your renting out are safe for residents.
@nekonatauzanto1758
@nekonatauzanto1758 3 жыл бұрын
@@Unknown_Ooh Not my problem. I carry insurance for fire and tell my renters to carry insurance too. Unless the county inspectors start opening the breaker box and weighing the circuit breakers how will they know the difference?
@StormsparkPegasus
@StormsparkPegasus 3 жыл бұрын
@@nekonatauzanto1758 Yeah, and if you're ever caught, you can go to jail.
@nekonatauzanto1758
@nekonatauzanto1758 3 жыл бұрын
@@StormsparkPegasus That's what lawyers are for. This ain't my first rodeo.
@JaenEngineering
@JaenEngineering 3 жыл бұрын
Seeing the construction, I wouldn't even be tempted to use it as an isolator switch.
@IAmTHEWhiteChocolate
@IAmTHEWhiteChocolate 3 жыл бұрын
"what we have in here is.. air.." Almost spit out my drink on that one lol
@JRgsy
@JRgsy 3 жыл бұрын
I was working at Newey & Eyre when we got informed about fake Square D breakers being distributed, never got any fake ones over in Guernsey as far as I know. Interesting video, many thanks.
@philipifera2616
@philipifera2616 3 жыл бұрын
The construction on this is similar to Federal Pacific used in the US for over 50 years, starting in the early 40's. There's millions of these boxes still in use. They don't trip. Fed Pac was sued out of existence in 1992.
@devilette
@devilette 3 жыл бұрын
Can confirm, bought a house built in the early 80s and had to pay an electrician to replace its FP box. And apparently the previous owners were running a hot tub on it as well 🤪
@5roundsrapid263
@5roundsrapid263 3 жыл бұрын
Zinsco was another one. I grew up near the factory, and my electrician father had to replace many, many of them.
@airplaneengine
@airplaneengine 3 жыл бұрын
FPE Stab-Lok breakers were real circuit breakers but they had a design flaw that would make them highly unreliable. You could test one and have it trip precisely as it should, but there was no guarantee that it would trip properly the second or third time around. They've been known to jam. These panels were also known to have issues with the breakers not seating tightly enough in the busbar.
@mernok2001
@mernok2001 3 жыл бұрын
It would be just better to just use vintage fuses.
@airplaneengine
@airplaneengine 3 жыл бұрын
@@mernok2001 Agreed. With glass or windowed fuses, you could tell if the fuse blew from a short circuit or a overload by the way the fuse link was melted.
@CBdesigns70
@CBdesigns70 3 жыл бұрын
A certain "un named" fast food pizza supplier would have loved these back in the day as he was caught out with part of a 6" nail rammed in his fuse box. He could have got away with the shit that hit the fan if only he had known of these bad boys..
@simonruszczak5563
@simonruszczak5563 3 жыл бұрын
A 6" nail is crazy, tin foil is much safer.
@ablebaker8664
@ablebaker8664 3 жыл бұрын
@@simonruszczak5563 Just use some of those left over blasting caps.
@benbaselet2026
@benbaselet2026 3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me how a certain person A once told a certain person B to just drive a nail through the fuse that kept blowing. Person B is alive today because they was stopped by people at the hardware counter asking why they only want to buy a single nail...
@5roundsrapid263
@5roundsrapid263 3 жыл бұрын
@@andymerrett The US had them, too. Look up “Shake Hands With Danger”. It’s a classic!
@mor4y
@mor4y 3 жыл бұрын
The tales I could tell you about a scrapyard I worked at.... where varying sizes of copper pipe made up most of the fuses! 👀 In a weird way though, safest place I ever worked?! 🤪 it was like the "shake hands with danger" video every goddamm day, but you were aware of it and double checked yourself. Meanwhile when I worked in a office I would regularly see people climbing up onto wheelie chairs to reach things, with quite a few accidents, and even a carpet wrinkle after after a spate of bad weather took out *half a dozen* otherwise unattentive people
@Builder707
@Builder707 3 жыл бұрын
I think that's among the most dangrous things you showed off so far. Sure, the fake laser goggles are super sketchy as well, but at least basic instinct tells me to not look into a laserbeam even with protection on whereas here anyday your cattle, stove, heater or other high-power equipment might just fail without activating the "breaker"
@zevfarkas5120
@zevfarkas5120 11 ай бұрын
"cattle"? I'm guessing you meant "kettle". Victim of auto(in)correct? (BTW - it doesn't have to be high-powered - anything that plugs into house current, for example a cellphone charger, can be a fire hazard if it develops a short.)
@petersvan7880
@petersvan7880 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video, thank you for putting a smile on my face :)
@Dornacgove
@Dornacgove 3 жыл бұрын
So, the conclusion is that the manufacturer should start adding some weights into these to make them feel more solid. Should we let them know? 🤔😬
@readysteadywhoa
@readysteadywhoa 3 жыл бұрын
Needs more loose screws but they'll cost a bit more
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 3 жыл бұрын
No it's OK. The one week part-P experts will leave the screws loose anyway.
@BRUXXUS
@BRUXXUS 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe a load of thorium powder? Then they could advertise them as ionizing health breakers.
@AndyHullMcPenguin
@AndyHullMcPenguin 3 жыл бұрын
I guess you could fill them with sand, like those fake 18650 cells. It would have the advantage of quenching the fire when that piece of old coax braid pretending to be a current carrying device explodes under load. That would probably limit it to only around an 80% chance of burning your house down, so a vast improvement. BTW does the plastic shell burn? I'd bet a wooden nickel that it does.
@dickcheney6
@dickcheney6 3 жыл бұрын
Don't give them any ideas lol
@CTCTraining1
@CTCTraining1 3 жыл бұрын
Clive, you do more for public safety than the HSE .... they should really be sponsoring your public information videos such as this.
@5roundsrapid263
@5roundsrapid263 3 жыл бұрын
John Ward does a fantastic job, too. Check his channel out if you haven’t yet.
@mfx1
@mfx1 3 жыл бұрын
@@fadate7292 A lot of rubbish is talked about the "HSE" and regulations that they've supposedly introduced (but in reality haven't) if you actually bother to read their case studies and in particular their "myth busters" section on the website you realise who's actually talking crap and making bogus rules.
@alericjohansen6775
@alericjohansen6775 3 жыл бұрын
This is insane! It kinda makes me want to test all my circuit breakers to see if they trip like they should.
@raypitts4880
@raypitts4880 3 жыл бұрын
they should have a anniversary of testing and a certificate signed by a certified engineer.
@_mnejing
@_mnejing 3 жыл бұрын
I so rarely react to watching videos out loud, but this got a "Jesus Christ" out of me when you opened it. That's disgusting and hilarious at the same time.
@Skyliner_369
@Skyliner_369 3 жыл бұрын
the fact that this, AHEM, stuff, gets into legit supplies is AWFUL. almost literally worse than nothing. might as well be a big knife switch like you see on the walls of Frankenstein's castle... except if it was a trio knife-switch it would actually be safer because at least then you'd KNOW not to rely on its SaFeTy and maybe throw it in the trash
@warrentb1
@warrentb1 3 жыл бұрын
at least those knife switches look cool
@johndododoe1411
@johndododoe1411 3 жыл бұрын
Properly built knife switches actually work and are easily inspected. Beware of fake marble boards though.
@SquishyZoran
@SquishyZoran 3 жыл бұрын
@@johndododoe1411 how do they fake the boards and any links to fake ones?
@godfreypoon5148
@godfreypoon5148 3 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with knife switches. Except for those pesky standards that call for "dead front" operation.
@johndododoe1411
@johndododoe1411 3 жыл бұрын
@@godfreypoon5148 A glass front where only the isolated handle goes through removes the risk of touching live parts.
@no-trick-pony
@no-trick-pony 3 жыл бұрын
The unsettling thing about this is that at least a dozen people must haven been knowingly involved in designing and manufacturing that. Someone who ordered it, engineers who designed it, produced the molds, sweatshop workers who manufactured it.. Makes you sick.
@simontay4851
@simontay4851 3 жыл бұрын
They need to be jailed and all their stock confiscated.
@paulc1197
@paulc1197 3 жыл бұрын
The moulds are probably sourced from the same factory that produces real ones and will only cost a few cents depending on the order.
@soaringvulture
@soaringvulture 3 жыл бұрын
@@paulc1197 Correct. There's plenty of room for actual protection circuits in those housings. No sense making a special one for your fakes.
@unitrader403
@unitrader403 3 жыл бұрын
might only be one guy who does this. could have been designed internally as switch (they are available in this format too), but the labelling is wrong and misleading
@shadowflash705
@shadowflash705 3 жыл бұрын
@@paulc1197 Company A can make those for other companies that make breakers. Company B makes actual breakers. And then there's one shady company Z that decided to make cheap switches and disguise them as breakers. That's one possible scenario. Second - shady company Z bought decommissioned line that makes those cases for a price of scrap metal.
@muadibe7511
@muadibe7511 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, much appreciated.
@wroberts1707
@wroberts1707 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, never knew they were that complex, and well spotted Dave
@evilutionltd
@evilutionltd 3 жыл бұрын
Profit doesn't care about your health or property.
@NotSoCrazyNinja
@NotSoCrazyNinja 3 жыл бұрын
Or the health and sanity of the employees/slaves.
@cenchloraadums3143
@cenchloraadums3143 3 жыл бұрын
Someone whos first priority is cheaper price when buying things wouldn't have care about those either.
@scabthecat
@scabthecat 3 жыл бұрын
From the country of cut baby powder. Racism doesn't happen in a vacuum.
@ThreeFineWonders
@ThreeFineWonders 3 жыл бұрын
Profit ‘cannot’ care about health or property, only people can. Capitalism has enabled man to do more good for their fellow man than any other political system, by a long shot.
@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge
@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge 3 жыл бұрын
@@ThreeFineWonders No it hasn't, if by "your fellow man" you mean a few dozen rich people, by way of throwing everyone else under the bus then yes, capitalism has done SOOOOO much good.
@techtastisch7569
@techtastisch7569 3 жыл бұрын
Some time ago I got a free 3p 400v chinese generator that wasn't working though the engine ran. I did some tests and it turned out that the windings had a few shorts in them. Did some more tests and the "breakers" really where only switches. They where branded Huahe c3. I tried tripping them with my big bench power supply set to 60A, 5 min later they where smoking. To sad those switches are indeed in service
@simontay4851
@simontay4851 3 жыл бұрын
Did you record a video of you testing these.
@techtastisch7569
@techtastisch7569 3 жыл бұрын
@@simontay4851 Sadly not, wish I did though (need to have a search, might still have the other 2)
@compzac
@compzac 3 жыл бұрын
@@techtastisch7569 What i found to be a huge insult inst so much the fact these are just fake switches essentially, cause at least they are the chinesiam switches i would tend to replace anyway with name brand stuff from a supplier with a name to protect, it is actually that supplies occasionally get contaminated with fake name brand stuff, i dealt with a chinese no name breaker that while it was "real" its tripping characteristic was to just get really hot and start smoking instead of tripping, it had all the internal bits but the stuff just wasn't made well, same thing as you though it was on a no name Chinese diesel generator, annoyingly the generator was a good model, had a clone yanmar engine that was rather decent and even the genset head was well done, it was just its breakers were utter shit, and its outlets too, the 240 volt plug was very loose fitting it still have the generator, but its got new wiring inside the control, new outlets and new breakers that thankfully are compliant... oh i forgot one more thing, when i pulled the control apart the ground was just not even bothered, no wiring and the plug on the outside youd shove into the ground, just had a bolt on the other end with no connection.
@Ragnar8504
@Ragnar8504 3 жыл бұрын
ABout 15 years ago there was a huge wave of recalls of faulty generators in central Europe, sold under names such as "Kraftwelle" or "Swisskraft". Every time one of these operations was shut down, another would pop up. Electrical safety was abysmal and according to some people online, even completely rebuilding one electrically wouldn't likely last long because the petrol engine could fail after only as little as ten hours.
@fleyua7176
@fleyua7176 3 жыл бұрын
Do you guys purposely buy the absolute cheapest on the market knowing it would fail? There are a lot of Chinese brands that has been opened up and work properly. Must be some odd company you guys picked it up from.
@1_GigaWaffle
@1_GigaWaffle 3 жыл бұрын
"arc quenching is done by luck" lol, brilliant XD
@benrosenberg3489
@benrosenberg3489 3 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, I was blown away when you opened it.
@brianartillery
@brianartillery 3 жыл бұрын
That's actually bloody terrifying, Clive. Fucking Hell. The only two words that came to mind when you opened it up.
@Conservator.
@Conservator. 3 жыл бұрын
It’s a ‘manual’ circuit braker: if you have a short, you’ll have to quickly pull the switch. 😱
@fidelcatsro6948
@fidelcatsro6948 3 жыл бұрын
like a car handbrake only we controlling electricity hahah
@tim_goll
@tim_goll 3 жыл бұрын
And if you pull it wrong, the arcs weld it shut. Extra fun!
@Conservator.
@Conservator. 3 жыл бұрын
@Robert Slackware I hadn’t thought about that possibility and you could be right. 👍 I’m not sure it is though but even if it is then the wrong labelling is of course unforgivable. Thank you for reminding us of that possibility!
@flatmoon6359
@flatmoon6359 3 жыл бұрын
How many nano seconds do you get flip switch.
@Conservator.
@Conservator. 3 жыл бұрын
@@flatmoon6359 5 at most.
@Tal1m
@Tal1m 3 жыл бұрын
Wow its really scary, in the daily work as an electrician it's hard to tell while its already on the board and live connected super dangerous, Thanks for sharing this out
@jamesbooty
@jamesbooty 3 жыл бұрын
Is the name on that non-breaking breaker "StiLON" ? - if so, that's quite clever
@DavidRobertsonUK
@DavidRobertsonUK 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm going to have nightmares now.
@gary_rumain_you_peons
@gary_rumain_you_peons 3 жыл бұрын
Nah, Clive, you misunderstand. You have to trip these ones manually.
@dickcheney6
@dickcheney6 3 жыл бұрын
I get the feeling someone got a bunch of empty circuit breaker cases, and threw these together to smuggle drugs inside.
@beaniewabster8030
@beaniewabster8030 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. Unbelievable!
@WalterKnox
@WalterKnox 3 жыл бұрын
we have un-trippable breakers here in the US as well, they are called Federal Pacific Stab-Lok breakers.
@petercampbell4220
@petercampbell4220 3 жыл бұрын
Those were incompetent, cheap, unreliable design. They were sleeze corperation, not out and out fraud with callous disregard for life like this breaker.
@animefreak5757
@animefreak5757 3 жыл бұрын
sad part is that they are STILL for sale. I learned as a fucking kid how bad those breakers were (stablok's in our main house, square d's in the old school portable we lived in while building said house) you could cut a live wire in half with snips (shorting the wire briefly) and the things still wouldn't trip.
@WalterKnox
@WalterKnox 3 жыл бұрын
@@animefreak5757 yep, my house was built in the 50s and has 2 panels, but the main panel that powers most things is a Federal Pacific Stablok panel, surprisingly i have not shorted too many things out, but i remember my friend had a space heater on the floor and he closed the metal door on it and it cut the cord and shorted for a good 5 seconds before i was able to unplug it, everything in the house dimmed and the outlet melted, but that damn 15 amp breaker didn't even seem to notice anything had happened. anyone who has them should absolutely replace them, there is none of that "have a qualified electrician look at them" just replace them, if a qualified electrician says a stablok panel is okay then they are not to qualified.
@WalterKnox
@WalterKnox 3 жыл бұрын
@@petercampbell4220 yes, i am aware they are not as bad, but more often than not they will not trip if there is a short or overload, i have seen a dead short not trip until manually disconnected on a 15 amp breaker before.
@kevvywevvywoo
@kevvywevvywoo 3 жыл бұрын
back in the early 70's we had Federal stab-lok breakers in UK installations before UK manufacturers got with the flow.
@Miata822
@Miata822 3 жыл бұрын
Oh crap. That's a real problem. I never thought about the weight. Fortunately I just somehow happen to know where I can get some scrap car batteries illegally dumped down by the reservoir. I can cut out chunks of the lead plates and hot-glue them into the fake breakers I sell on AliExpress. Thanks for the tip!
@Miata822
@Miata822 3 жыл бұрын
and before you call the authorities, yes, of course I'm joking.
@simontay4851
@simontay4851 3 жыл бұрын
if car batteries have really been illegally dumped by a resoviour, you need to get them out ASAP. Lead could contanimate the drinking water.
@Miata822
@Miata822 3 жыл бұрын
@@simontay4851 Obviously. Just as obviously I wasn't being serious. I am mocking the behavior of those who would do something as evil as to sell an utterly fake circuit breaker that could start a fire that could kill people.
@mckenziekeith7434
@mckenziekeith7434 3 жыл бұрын
@@simontay4851 it is all a joke. BUT, in the US, at least, car batteries never sit around in urban areas because they can be recycled for real money. If someone left a car battery by the side of the road, some scrapper would pick it up and recycle it for a couple of bucks. Also, most car parts stores will accept old ones because like I say, they have some value as they can be recycled to make new batteries.
@SuperSmashDolls
@SuperSmashDolls 3 жыл бұрын
Actual circuit breaker engineers: "We engineered a precision circuit breaker with multiple failsafes to keep electricity from killing people" Unscrupulous landlords: haha infinite amperage go brrrr
@m-w-y7325
@m-w-y7325 3 жыл бұрын
can I ask you about the company the Circut breaker is made under the branding of? I've just got my Solar system installed last year and it has two pairs of these used to cutoff power from Solar and main line. is there someway I can tell if they are working or not?
@copernicofelinis
@copernicofelinis 3 жыл бұрын
They do not even bother to fill them with sand. They probably find it more profitable to paint the sand white and sell it for sugar.
@MichaelBeeny
@MichaelBeeny 3 жыл бұрын
Sand costs money!
@johndododoe1411
@johndododoe1411 3 жыл бұрын
Back when mandatory product testing was still a thing, I saw a demonstration of how a fuse would fail without the sand. Almost but not quite as dangerous.
@alexanderkupke920
@alexanderkupke920 3 жыл бұрын
They used up all the white painted stuff for fake milk powder. After that most Chinese parents still refuse to buy made in china milk powder and buy the made in Europe stuff, even after European brands set up plants producing milk powder to European standards in China. I think they got bitten quite a bit in the rear end by those rip off sell out manufacturers themselves by now. Sad it still seems to make enough money to seem a viable option.
@LordDragox412
@LordDragox412 3 жыл бұрын
@@alexanderkupke920 I mean, when you're allowed to only have one child you get *really* attached to it, so when it dies in a horrible way after ingesting fake milk powder it can be quite traumatic so it's no wonder. Once bitten, twice shy. Especially considering even the Chinese know that most of their products are of terrible quality and many streetfoods use gutter oil to cook things. It's one of reasons why life expectancy in China is so low. Work for the regime and die when you're too old to be useful :/
@alexanderkupke920
@alexanderkupke920 3 жыл бұрын
@@LordDragox412 Didn´t they rather recently abandon the one child policy or do I remember wrong? Doesn´t matter, but those Chinese vendors simply played gamble with cutting corners , wenßt all in and lost all trust. And trust is about the hardest thing to rebuild (ask Boeing) I think the Chinese actually suffer a lot from plagiarism in their own economy and as far as I know they worked on a lot of laws to somehow quench those businesses. But I think I heard once a rather good explanation that at least to some degree explained a lot why China was/is so big in copying and plagiarism. On the one hand, they had all the machinery and knowledge to do it. On the other hand, copying is something absolutely natural to Chinese people if they want to get literate. As it was explained, there is no common scheme or any other way to learn reading and writing Chinese thant memoryzing all the symbols and all their different meanings. And best way to do that is by copying texts over and over and over and over.... Because its not like our Latin alphabet which allows us to construct words from letters. Add some scumbags with no conscience who only see some quick Yuan and there you go.
@thomasjwynn
@thomasjwynn 3 жыл бұрын
I am disgusted that people would make such things. Hundreds of people could have these in their homes without them even knowing, that is the truly scary part.
@benbaselet2026
@benbaselet2026 3 жыл бұрын
Hundreds? You really think a huge factory in China is going to make mere hundreds? I bet there are a million or way more of these splattered all over the world.
@thomasjwynn
@thomasjwynn 3 жыл бұрын
@@benbaselet2026 I am trying to be optimistic
@Nerdiasme
@Nerdiasme 3 жыл бұрын
@@thomasjwynndon't 😉
@shadowflash705
@shadowflash705 3 жыл бұрын
@@benbaselet2026 Huge companies don't make those. It's probably some basement with rats or abandoned building where someone placed decommissioned assembly line bought for a few thousands.
@TheColinputer
@TheColinputer 3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me back when i was a kid and my dad rented a floor sander and the rental shop pulled out a couple of boxes of the most common types of house hold fuses used (This was in the pre breaker days) and all of them just had the fuse wire replaced with a bit of copper wire. And told us to use it if our fuse kept blowing while using the sander.
@ObiwanNekody
@ObiwanNekody 3 жыл бұрын
Wow. I seriously hope that the company that did this gets caught and shut down.
@tigerseye73
@tigerseye73 3 жыл бұрын
Not going to happen in CHINA.
@Raptorman0909
@Raptorman0909 3 жыл бұрын
It's my guess that one of the factories that make parts for real CB's decided to make use of production capacity to make there own version using only the parts they make themselves. The housing looks similar to the real one and the contact lugs appear legit. The owner of this company needs to spend some time in a chilly state owned grey-bar Extended Stay hotel.
@randydaniels9218
@randydaniels9218 3 жыл бұрын
And for a long time...
@simontopple911
@simontopple911 3 жыл бұрын
When fake product scandals cost (Chinese) lives they tend to execute the factory owners. There was a fake child milk scandal a few years back.
@docvolt5214
@docvolt5214 3 жыл бұрын
@@simontopple911 you know... That's the only thing about China I can get behind with
@simontopple911
@simontopple911 3 жыл бұрын
@@docvolt5214 we also shouldn't forget the complicity of certain online retailers in the sale of dangerous goods.
@docvolt5214
@docvolt5214 3 жыл бұрын
@@simontopple911 I just hope nobody decides to slap an ABB or Schneider logo on it. Can you imagine the possible loss of life?
@dwDragon88
@dwDragon88 3 жыл бұрын
That thing is closer to a fuse than a circuit breaker. The mechanism looks to be made out of pot metal.
@SmokeGrinder
@SmokeGrinder 3 жыл бұрын
A fuse would be safer than that counterfit circuit breaker.
@humanseagull2744
@humanseagull2744 3 жыл бұрын
yeah, just thinking that as well, bit of crysotile round it as flame retardant , be good to go ;) , dont forget your FFP3 mask tho
@thisguy2958
@thisguy2958 3 жыл бұрын
This is less safe than a typical light switch.
@draven4464
@draven4464 3 жыл бұрын
Big Clive, saving a big amount of lives
@beautaub815
@beautaub815 3 жыл бұрын
Dear lord, it's like a penny in a fuse box.
@deda0071
@deda0071 3 жыл бұрын
Yup...The brand name is really fitting... Still-on
@gabracal
@gabracal 3 жыл бұрын
I really can't believe that even MCB's can have fake versions.
@tailgunner2
@tailgunner2 3 жыл бұрын
I have seen similar "breaker type" disconnects before. Square D made them for a while. At first glance, the look like typical 60 amp, 2 pole breakers. However, the device is clearly labeled "Disconnecting Means Only. No overcurrent protection" and meant for dedicated enclosures, rather than an electrical panel.
@vikasgehlot7915
@vikasgehlot7915 3 жыл бұрын
Eye opening information.
@arthurmann578
@arthurmann578 3 жыл бұрын
I think that any landlord that knowingly and willingly uses one of these "breakers" in a building that catches fire because of it and, God forbid, causes the death of anyone, should be held fully accountable for this crime! If it is a company that you hired that does this without your knowledge, then THEY should be held accountable!
@Mobin92
@Mobin92 3 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone willingly install this? At best they are sold a bit cheaper then the real thing, and some contractor might just get them.
@johnmurrell3175
@johnmurrell3175 3 жыл бұрын
@@Mobin92 It's a switch not a breaker - the generator design limits the current so a breaker even if fitted would never trip - don't get a small generator confused with a low impedance public supply or the capabilities of a large generator.
@Texas1FlyBoy
@Texas1FlyBoy 3 жыл бұрын
Well. It does "break the circuit" when you flip the switch. 😉
@softy8088
@softy8088 3 жыл бұрын
All switches are *technically* circuit breakers.
@Anvilshock
@Anvilshock 3 жыл бұрын
@@widdermann100 Very slow-blowing.
@erkinalp
@erkinalp 3 жыл бұрын
@@widdermann100 was going to say exactly that.
@eDoc2020
@eDoc2020 3 жыл бұрын
Except it doesn't even do a good job at that. If there's some decent current flowing it will just arc across when you try to open it.
@ernestsmith3581
@ernestsmith3581 3 жыл бұрын
Box said: Circuit Breaker, Manual Inside box: no manual found
@ffilby
@ffilby 3 жыл бұрын
A real one of these saved my life just this week!
@matneu27
@matneu27 3 жыл бұрын
The "wish" advertising floating in perfectly matches the product explained here 😁
@miniman3112
@miniman3112 3 жыл бұрын
I need to put those on my infinite free energy generator so that I never accidentally stop humanity's progress.
@jed-henrywitkowski6470
@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 жыл бұрын
Lol.
@Duncan_1971
@Duncan_1971 3 жыл бұрын
Hide it from all the weasels in authority.
@kardeef33317
@kardeef33317 3 жыл бұрын
I think you standard light switch would be safer to use.. That was a glorified poorly build light switch.
@fidelcatsro6948
@fidelcatsro6948 3 жыл бұрын
would make a replacement headlight switch on my 40yr old yamaha
@GoCoyote
@GoCoyote 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great explanation of how a breaker works, and the clear cased breaker is very nice. Is it a demonstration unit or a functional breaker? I have often seen bad connections cause high resistance heating that melted equipment. The homeowners asked me why the breaker didn’t trip. I found the best explanation was that a toaster gets hot enough to burn and melt things without tripping your breakers.
@lostthebox4403
@lostthebox4403 3 жыл бұрын
That definitely explains how light the "breaker" was from the e-bike I scavenged. Will be replacing that soon. I don't even like that as a power cut-off for battery removal.
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