Teardown of the worlds crappiest nite-lite.

While ebay has some very low quality Chinese stuff on it, this little LED night light really takes the biscuit. It's visually unpleasant and has such hideously underrated components that it's only fit for the bin.
The circuitry is the most minimalist capacitive dropper possible, with a 100nF cap (with 820K discharge resistor in parallel) in series with three LEDs wired as a single LED and a pair in inverse parallel so it alternates between one LED and two on each half wave of the mains cycle, and a 330 ohm resistor to limit inrush current. Sadly the capacitor which is suspiciously small only has a voltage rating of 100V which is far short of the peak UK mains voltage (230/240V AC) of around 330V. Yeah, rated at less than a THIRD of the supply voltage.
In use the light flickers very visibly due to the alternating between the LEDs on each half cycle.
Such a shame. With a tiny bit more effort it could have been made much nicer.