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Elta Model 8883 DVD Player - Lethal design defect
Non fatal electrocution from Elta MPEG-4 Player 8883 (DVD
Player)
MPEG=4 player for TV ( On opening player, & considering
what was wrong, a combination of all of:
Maybe the Scart socket was grounding the DVD player, & when
that pulled out while power cable was still plugged in to
socket behind the player, while I was pulling the player out of
the tv stand ... 230 V nominal into my hand. Any one of these
would have saved me:
- If PSU gad not been deliberately grounded to chassis
- Chassis covered in plastic
- 3 core cable & plug
- Polarised socket like Britain or France, unlike Germany
& Italy
- Newer flat with earth
trip, or get owner to fit earth trip in wall in fuse
box.
(Apparently flats a few years after mine all started having
earth
trips built in). Flat was built new & first rented in
Oct. 1985. Neighbouring flat with same landlord, &
several changes of tenant since 1985 (thus intermittent
vacant access), also has no earth
trip in wall.
- Screw a socket on outside of back of TV stand &
unplug all equipment before moving.
Pictures (sorry, pictures out of focus):
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DVD player, lid
off
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Power board
removed from DVD player, component side of PCB
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Power board
removed from DVD player, empty copper side of PCB.
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An
earth trip, that would have protected me, but then
Nobody sticks one of these in every power socket round a
flat, consider the cost ! (I only have one, for when
drilling in walls, or doing electronics work on open
equipment).
This also shows the deficient
Germany style "Schuko" non- polarised sockets &
some other European countries use. (
French sockets are better with similar cost of
materials: French use an offset earth pin, giving polarised
power, defining which pin is live, & which is
neutral).
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Back of
earth trip.
Detail from PCB of PSU: Elta CO-DPB118; 2004-1-1 MW GW108
Net search on Elta 8883:
- http://slo-tech.com/forum/t79065/249
looks inside like a AMSTRAD 3016dx.
- www.eltagmbh.de Didn't answer my mail, Suspected out of
business years back. Looked again 2023-03-07: unlinked as a
domain squatter.
- http://www.elta.de/ A
similar named but presumably different firm who don't sell
electronics, but simple appliances like coffee grinders.
2026-01-30 I scraped another DVD Player: Toshiba SD290EKB
because it blew an internal soldered fuse (too cheap skate to
have a fuse holder on the back) I soldered in another fuse
& that blew too, so I scraped it because it was another
excremental dangerous design:
- PSU PCB screwed to chassis by just 2 screws (more
cheapskate excremental to keep cost down, not even 4 screws,
2 tabs at back made by bending the rear frame),
- The soldered component pins of the PSU PCB were just
millimetres from the chassis
- Steel chassis not covered in plastic, the top had black
paint, the base was bare metal.
- 2 core not 3 core cable, doubtless original plug was a
moulded 13A UK plug, but I'd cut that off to connect a Schuko
(German) plug.
toshiba sd290ekb label
toshiba sd290ekb power base
One has to wonder how many other manufacturers sold equally
excremental unsafe DVD players of profile type: slim, shallow,
wide enough to tempt placing a TV on top (bad idea as very thin
chassis, might bend / break / bring soldered live wires closer
to chassis ) ?
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