Poundland Xmas 2018 screw-up deja vu.

Last year Poundland was selling phone charging leads in the style of a string of Christmas lights. Nice idea, and if you got a set that worked they're fine. But a number of people reported that when they plugged theirs in the first LED would make a crack noise and the cap would fly off. It turned out that there was a slight wiring error where a current limiting resistor was in series with most of the :LEDs, but not the first.
This year they have a similar set with 6 lights instead of 8 and in this set ALL the LEDs appear to be wired directly across the 5V supply and in this one they started failing rapidly as a result.
I think it may be time for Poundland to have a word with that supplier as it tarnishes the otherwise good reputation of their Xmas light strings.

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