2mo ago

Magnetic cable just catched on fire while being tester under nominal load

Let me know what you think, but this cable straight up melted and catched on fire after being put up to its nominal power.

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I knew that those cables were shady, but this result was actually surprising. It really went out with full fireworks.
- It was surprising to see this happening so far into the video.
I thought he said this cable was rated at 100w, not 250w.
Nope I was wrong he did say 240w
- It's weird, it says 100W on the connector and 240W on the chip that is digitally read via the tester. Someone really cheaped out.
  
  Possibly a case of faulty chips that were supposed to be able to handle 240w, failed QA and got binned and slapped in a 100w cable thinking it's fine and users would just know.
I thought the tester was really neat except it went from 89 euros to 105 euros while I was looking at the page. That's very disappointing.
- It's 89€ without tax, so maybe you are in a taxable country?
Did he ever specify the manufacturer of this cable or is he suggesting that this is a problem with every cable?

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