Magnito light cable shorting

ShaunSA said:
That's a tad sexist o_O
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I want to tell her it is, but then she might not cook, clean, do the laundry and iron the clothes :cool:. I must just pay the bills, cut the grass, take out the trash and do the home & car maintenance and do whatever she tells me do.
 
We have several, but have never had any need to ram the cables into the case. They do get plugged and unplugged regularly with no signs of the two prong plugs breaking. The batteries are terrible, but probably par for the course for lead acid batteries that run down regularly. It would be great to convert them to lithium.

AlphaJohn said:
Soldering iron and screw driver

Work with that spec all the time, only its normally 12V RGB LED's
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What about crimping on ferrules?
 
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noxibox said:
We have several, but have never had any need to ram the cables into the case. They do get plugged and unplugged regularly with no signs of the two prong plugs breaking. The batteries are terrible, but probably par for the course for lead acid batteries that run down regularly. It would be great to convert them to lithium.


What about crimping on ferrules?
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I cannot honestly say that I had encounter a problem. I did once bring one to close to a braai once. But it works fine the lens is curved inwards. But no issue on the wire itself.


Edit: holy ****:
I went to take photos of the curved lantern:20230202_194548.jpg20230202_194445.jpg
 
****. I see mine are also breaking off.
 
Nerfherder said:
I'm thinking the real fix is that it should be using a grounded 3 pin cable... but obviously a better cable as well.

The trick here is that some people don't move these around, which is then a lot safer, the cable wont get frayed.
We use it as a lantern so its getting unplugged daily.
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I just inspected all 4, two has much thicker cables, and the two that is frayed is much thinner. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Maybe the manufacturer is in denial or maybe the failure rate really is low. The cables are probably thin to keep the costs down, but at the same time a device like this doesn't need a beefy cable. On top of that if the cable were thicker it would have to be shorter to still fit into the back. They're already barely long enough. I would have preferred that it had a socket on the back so it could take any two prong cable and I could then use a longer one. A device like this doesn't require an earth, so they haven't taken any shortcuts by not including an earth wire. If they'd used a three prong plug it would simply have lacked an earth connection. You'll this often in countries that only use three prong plugs. The earth pin will be a dummy because putting a wire in there would serve no purpose.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
If this wasn't Africa they would have been forced to take these things off the shelves and recall all the problem units until the issue was rectified.
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Dont come with your first world nonsense. This is Africa, SABS cannot be bothered to do their job. Remember the Government/SABS condom debacle. I wonder how many people got HIV from those condoms breaking.
 
rh1 said:
Dont come with your first world nonsense. This is Africa, SABS cannot be bothered to do their job. Remember the Government/SABS condom debacle. I wonder how many people got HIV from those condoms breaking.
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HIV is not the only problem, but look at all the ''snortneuse'' running around in their diapers, most of them will never even know their fathers.
 
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Stokstert said:
Yes, it's easy enough.

My motto is, if they can assemble it, I can disassemble it.

If there is a next time, I will get a connector and these cables, so that the cable is not dangling along as it is now.

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Yes, I wanted to find a cable like that and then join it. Did you have that as a spare ? or did you buy it ?
 
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