FastTech LED Lights WARNING

[ChillerVapes]

So, I received my second parcel today from fasttech, among other things, I purchased a set of LED net lights for the window.

Now, they came with a European plug (no problem since I have an adapter) however,

There is NO transformer on the lights and the wires are dangerously thin... they are thinner than the black and red speaker wire!

I plugged them in to test and they work however, in the 5 min that they were on, the plastic around the led bulb base has started to go black.

I decided to try using a 24v transformer with them but they fail to light with it so there is no way of making them safe without been an electrician.



I'm really disappointed with them, I thought they might at least be safe to use since they are LED.


I don't know if I can even get my money back on them since I have sliced into the wire to add the transformer.

[meeee]

Are you sure thay are Led's as they require DC rather than AC?

[ChillerVapes]

Yeh they are LED.

I have popped open the controller (the little box with a button on it to change the settings of the twinkles) abd it looks like it has a rather crude transformer in there.
It's still very dangerous though since 240v which travels up to the box via the 'doorbell' wire could so easily cause a fire since the wire is so thin.

Compared to speaker wire (which has 12 individual strands of copper wire) this only has 5 strands of silver coloured wire inside the see though insulation wire.

www.fasttech.com/p/1526503

Thats the lights I am on about.

[Super-Shiny]

Sorry but you would not see me using any Christmas/Fairy lights from FT, when it comes to something that can cause fire or any other problems i will stick with buying from the UK, life it too short enough as it is

[meeee]

Does sound like they could be a bit dangerous, if you have 120 led's which would probably draw between 10-20ma each then it would be between 1.2 - 2.4 amps which is a fair amount of current for such thin wires.

[Super-Shiny]

Anything to do with batteries or volatge/watts or anything that can catch on fire (unless it is a confirmed genuine product) buy from the UK....for me it is scary thinking not too

[ChillerVapes]

I thought... well, everything is made in china.... I never expected something that you plug in to be so deadly which was made these days.
Maybe the old style lights but when you think of leds, you expect them to be low voltage, safe etc.

[OneDay]

I bought the 200 led net and will not be using them