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Found metal weight inside

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Absolutely is, no doubt about it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did it cost an unreasonably small amount?

Why did you take it apart?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 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] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Foam, or a heat conductive pad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 minutes ago

Normal tape foam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago