https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/7c3760d6-6c90-4a7a-9724-b9bbfe78bdef Last year Poundland was selling phone charging leads in the style of a string of Christmas lights. Nice idea, and if you got a set that worked they're fine. But a number of people reported that when they plugged theirs in the first LED would make a crack noise and the cap would fly off. It turned out that there was a slight wiring error where a current limiting resistor was in series with most of the :LEDs, but not the first. This year they have a similar set with 6 lights instead of 8 and in this set ALL the LEDs appear to be wired directly across the 5V supply and in this one they started failing rapidly as a result. I think it may be time for Poundland to have a word with that supplier as it tarnishes the otherwise good reputation of their Xmas light strings. If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:- http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:28:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/7c3760d6-6c90-4a7a-9724-b9bbfe78bdef All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.