1 EEVblog #388 - Fake Apple USB Charger Teardown
Dave Jones tears down a counterfeit Apple USB charger and shows its poor mains isolation; cited in discussions of cheap chargers and the shock risk they carry.
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teardown
19 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.
2 Teardown of an eBay 25A Solid State Relay. (SSR)
Big Clive opens a cheap eBay 25A solid state relay and finds a triac rated well below the label; cited when people ask what is inside these SSRs.
3 Power Saver Scam EXPOSED!
Mehdi Sadaghdar opens a plug-in electricity saving box and shows why it cannot cut a household bill; the standard link whenever someone asks whether these devices work.
4 Crappy PSU analysis
A teardown and analysis of a cheap USB power supply, cited when people ask how to test chargers and whether bargain units are safe.
5 Horrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)
A teardown of a dangerous cheap USB charger, cited whenever someone asks why bargain mains adapters are worth avoiding.
6 Deadly camping light with 240v USB outlet.
Big Clive tears down a camping light whose capacitive dropper can leave its USB port at mains potential; cited as a vivid example of unsafe cheap design.
7 Poundland 6W LED lamp teardown with schematic.
Big Clive's teardown of a mains LED lamp, cited to show how the bulb's driver and LED string are arranged and what voltages the LEDs run at.
8 E-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate
Applied Science explores how e-ink displays work internally while pushing their refresh rate, cited for understanding the panels before driving one yourself.
9 EEVblog #674 - Rigol DS1054Z Teardown
An EEVblog teardown of a Rigol oscilloscope, cited for details of its internals such as the switching supply, relay count and build quality.
10 EEVblog #314 - Korad KA3005P PSU Teardown
An EEVblog teardown of a programmable bench power supply, cited for its remote interfaces and a note on tinned exposed traces for current.
11 Anritsu spectrum analyser teardown
A spectrum analyser teardown linked for one memorable section where unusual RF construction baffles even the presenter.
12 EEVblog #242 - Hakko FX-888 Soldering Iron Hack
Dave Jones tears down a Hakko FX-888 soldering iron and modifies its indicator LED, giving a look at build quality along the way.
13 Disassembly and schematic of an arc lighter.
Big Clive takes apart an arc lighter and draws out its circuit, cited for the schematic and estimated electrode voltage.
14 Inside some dodgy Chinese USB power supplies from Greece.
Big Clive examines some USB power supplies and finds poor isolation, used to show how a mains charger can fall short on safety.
15 Unusual usage (hours) counter with mercury capillary
Ben Krasnow explains how a mercury coulometer hour meter works, linked whenever someone finds one of these unusual elapsed time indicators in old equipment.
16 Shorting out a fully charged cheap lithium jump starter. (It didn't end well.)
BigClive opens a lithium jump starter power bank, estimating its peak current with improvised methods and showing cable and cell resistance effects in practice.
17 Raspberry Pi Zero Extreme Teardown
An electronupdate teardown that decaps a Raspberry Pi's BCM2835 and inspects the board's power supply parts, cited for low level hardware details.
18 Inside a fake un-trippable circuit breaker.
Shared as a cautionary teardown showing cheap circuit breakers with no real trip mechanism inside, used to warn against unbranded safety parts.
19 EEVblog #37 - Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope Teardown
EEVblog tears down the Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, cited for what it reveals about the hardware, including the overclocked ADC parts inside.
