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I've just spent a very long time trawling Aliexpress for stuff for our entertainment.

I managed to find the following items:-

The original mains speaker-terminal and switch tester I couldn't find on eBay.

An "explosion proof" lamp tester that basically puts a tungsten lamp in series with the connected load so it's less likely to go bang.  They had a demo video showing someone holding an LED lamp and then shorting the live and neutral terminals with a pair of uninsulated metal tweezers in their other hand!

I also found an intriguing LED wiring loom for discrete LEDs and the matching shady power supply that I've featured before.  I've seen it used in metal floor lights wrapped in shiny bare coiled wire with this wiring loom threaded through it, and pondered if it had been prone to giving people shocks.  Probably yes, since they suddenly switched to low voltage strings of LEDs instead.

Some unusual LEDs that I'm not even sure what's going to arrive.

And finally I got another lamp tester that does every standard base, including letting you put a 12V MR16 lamp across 240V.

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Seán Byrne

My brother who recently visited Pakistan brought back a "Woxsn Automatic Digital Volt Protector" thinking it would be useful for monitoring the AC voltage as he saw appliances being plugged into these units over there. It has an LED display, a "3 min" switch, a death-daptor outlet and its plug looks like a shaver plug but with unshrouded pins. While it does display the AC voltage, turns out it's an under/over voltage protector to temporarily disconnect appliances like refrigerators during brown-outs, spikes, etc. with a 3 minute delay before supplying power again. The area he stayed at (can't remember) also only got electricity certain hours of the day.

Anonymous

Yes that sounds like the standard pakistani plug. used to be in the british standards as a 2 pin variant of the 3 pin 5amp type (or maybe 15A)

Zane Revai

Awesome lol thanks