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I got a ceiling fan a few months back. The wireless remote had no FCC id on it. The box in the fan did. I opened the remote and the plastic was oddly formed, an
by galangalalgol 4y ago
I got a ceiling fan a few months back. The wireless remote had no FCC id on it. The box in the fan did. I opened the remote and the plastic was oddly formed, and there was only one nonsense word printed on the pcb, and "v1.0". The microcontroller didn't even have anything printed on it. I listened to it with an sdr and it was in the 434MHz band, and not overly noisy. It probably would have passed if someone had payed for it to be tested... If I'd purchased it on AliExpress or even ebay I wouldn't have been surprised, but it was a front page prime-day deal. I knew Amazon was iffy, but this was a straight up illegal product.
- simfree 4y agoAmazon doesn't care, much of what is offered is ordered on Alibaba, shipped direct to an Amazon warehouse for Fulfilled by Amazon then resold at a notable markup. Policing this is very hard for brands that have skus they would like to defend from fakes, nevermind a much broader range of consumer goods with little oversight.