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Found metal weight inside

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Absolutely is, no doubt about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Did it cost an unreasonably small amount?

Why did you take it apart?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

30$, it's dead that's why I took it apart

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

It's definitely cheaply built. There is no RFI filtering and they used a resistor as a fuse. At least it appears to have a decent amount of separation between the high and low voltage sides though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago