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Hitchin Hackspace

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We bought a Lidl "Parkside" Digital Hot Air Gun PHLGD 2000 B4 on Saturday. Turned it on yesterday and it tripped the circuit breakers at the Hackspace immediately. The main power switch is faulty. Took it back to the store for a replacement, plugged that in, it powers on regardless of the on/off switch position. The main power switch is faulty again! SPC might suggest this is not a good purchase to failure ratio. Is the product fit / safe for sale?
If you have recently bought one of these, they are currently on sale in UK Lidl stores, please do plug it in and check it is safe today! You might want to plug it in to a circuit without any running computers on it in case it trips your breakers! Also make sure there is nothing in front of the nozzle when you power it on at the mains, in case you experience the second failure mode we have seen and it powers on regardless of its power switch position!

Picture of a boxed Lidl Parkside Digital Hot Air Gun PHLGD 2000 B4. On the box there is a picture of the hot air gun, some text describing it's spec, an array of 4 nozzle adaptors and a cutaway image of the controls. The hot airgun looks like a glorified industrial hair drier. It has a rubberised black pistol grip, a green rubberised body casing with the "Parkside" logo along the side and a silver metal nozzle for the hot air to be directed through.
Oct 04, 2023, 09:20 AM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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