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> This somewhat limits the usefulness of the hardware anywhere you need to be insured, e.g. your house, boat or van. Same goes for all the random Chinese inver
by MisterTea 8mo ago
> This somewhat limits the usefulness of the hardware anywhere you need to be insured, e.g. your house, boat or van.
Same goes for all the random Chinese inverters people are buying and installing in their Homes, Boats and Vans. Doesn't seem to stop them.
- throawayonthe 8mo agothose are usually certified?
- Rebelgecko 8mo agoDefinitely not UL (if we're talking about the $300 inverters on Amazon or AliExpress from companies like Anenji)
- stephen_g 8mo agoThe cheap stuff usually have the certification labels printed on them, but a cursory look inside usually shows breaches if you know what to look for (like we have had stuff from China where the ground wire wasn't connected to anything, but even if that's right there are things like just not having enough clearance between mains and isolated DC in power supplies etc.). So they are definitely not actually certified, they just slap the labels on anyway. Of course, there is a rising group of actually really high-quality native brands starting to come out of China - Anker were an early one of these, Xiaomi is a massive one, UGreen is really popular on Amazon etc. These kind of brands actually will be properly certified and are scary good for how cheap they are. So it's changing a lot.
- seb1204 8mo agoI thought Anker and UGreen are Amazon brands by now?
- danw1979 8mo agoSo in the UK you won’t get sign off from building control if your electrician uses a dodgy uncertified device, and that results in your insurance being invalidated, at least according to my policy.