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Found metal weight inside

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[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Absolutely is, no doubt about it

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 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.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Did it cost an unreasonably small amount?

Why did you take it apart?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)
[–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Heavier = good ?

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Foam, or a heat conductive pad?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Normal tape foam

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Interesting.