[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 129, Issue 33

[David Cole]

I wish the original post had not been trimmed...  I missed it.
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On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 09:01 -0500, CR wrote:
> 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
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