Post by malewithatail on Nov 12, 2022 14:52:15 GMT 10
Just had a friend give me a small digital voltmeter module to look at.
It cost him something like $7 on e bay, but was dead on arrival.
Opened it up and the connecting wires had detached from the board. Re-soldered them and connected to a power supply. The readings were meaningless gibberish.
Re-soldered some obviously bad joints and the result was it reading 75 volts, regardless of the actual input.
Conclusion, junk, don't waste your money.
Another rip off.
The neighbor bought a couple of GPS trackers on e bay for about $5 each. They are supposed to be attached to a device, or the cat !, to track its location.
He couldn't get them to work so I volunteered to look.
1) It has no gps module inside.
2) It needs a valid sim card and phone plan to work.
3) It uses the mobile network to determine the location.
4) Accuracy is therefore pretty bad.
5) It wont work anyway in Australia as it uses the 2 G network and that was closed down in 2018.
Save your money.
If it seems to cheap to be true, it probably is.
