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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:
- https://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
toshiba sd290ekb power top
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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