Electric ring lighting "Lani 4 light Plate with 8 White LEDs"Type/model: Argos catalogue n
Lighting equipmentElectric shock
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
- Notifying country
- Ireland
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
The chassis of the product may become live. On some of the LEDs the insulating heat shrink sleeving was not pushed sufficiently far onto the leg of the LED to prevent access to the standard test finger. Three accidents reported to Argos (including: unit overheating, unit tripped circuit breaker, customer received "shock" - no injury / hospital treatment required).
Measures taken
- Voluntary withdrawal from distribution and recall. Voluntary measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- Electric ring lighting "Lani 4 light Plate with 8 White LEDs"Type/model: Argos catalogue number 432/1613, BSB Orion model 78787.
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 0017/06 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2006-2
- Published
- 19 January 2006
- Corrigendum
- Corrigendum concerning notification no. 2 (0740/05): Please note that according to the information provided by the producer on the packaging of the product, the quick release snap hook "Kong, model AISI 316" should be used for water skiing, trick competition and racing and slalom. There are no indications that this product is dangerous for such uses. The safety problems have occured when the product has been used for used for kite-surfing.
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