[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 129, Issue 33

[CR]

On 1/25/2015 6:11 PM, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
>   This is not only dangerous, it is potentially lethal.
> If there is a "UL" label on it, no doubt it is counterfeit.  II have
> been using real Variacs and its competing US-brand devices for decades
> and have never run across something as egregious as that.
>
> Were I in your shoes I would cut off the cord and throw the device in
> the metal recycle bin.  You have no idea what other dangerous things
> were incorporated by accident or by intention.

More, t*his needs to be reported to the CPSC* at 
http://www.saferproducts.gov/Default.aspx
Importers and resellers will have to recall the item and refund what was 
paid for it (if there are records, they're still around, etc etc. ).

Cortland Richmond
KA5S