How to detect shitty and dangerous aluminium flex.

A lot of products bought from China directly are being supplied with token gesture mains cables to merely tick the box of supplying one at the lowest cost possible. Besides the horrific defects in the plug on theis "UK" lead it also has the flimsy copper coated aluminium (CCA) cable that is higher resistance and poorer connection stability than copper.
Here's how to test a suspect flex, although an easier option is just to buy a selection of proper copper flexes with various connectors (IEC, cloverleaf and figure-eight) from a respectable local supplier so that you know you are getting cables that hopefully meet your country's regulations.

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