I don't believe that can possibly do anything useful, nor the board with the name on it. I'd remove them both and simplify (and sleeve) the mains wiring if this were my HDR Fox T2.
I think there may be two plastic mounting posts under the hot melt glue.I will take a closer look at the last PCB above when I get home tonight. If it really just connects to L and N it is hilarious, especially as it is fixed with just hot glue
Russ Andrews has been around decades and it's always been total snake oil rubbish, and very expensive rubbish at that.
Absolutely.
I don't know how they are still in business or have not been prosecuted for misrepresentation or fraud...
...or actually killed someone with their unsafe bodges. Hilarity doesn't come in to it, unless it's them laughing at their sucker customers to the tune of 400 quid.
We need much better pictures of both sides of both boards to see what they actually are, once you've removed them.
Because the ASA are useless, and actually prosecuting Russ Andrews in court would be hugely expensive not to mention likely to fail as it is a technical case.
As seemed likely from earlier photos.
I wonder what on earth Russ Andrews claim that does?
It's quite common to use hot melt glue to physically stabilise mains components. What isn't common is the total lack of insulation on display here.
Oh I don't know, those Zapperator devices look really useful, especially as, according to his white paper, they are based on Zobel Networks, which are used to flatten out line impedances ....
That's my point. With a gold-plated mains plug (or whatever), at least you know what you're buying and it's up to you whether you think it's worth the money. Some weird electronics assembly added specifically as a dummy in support of the con is another matter entirely, and it is surprising that nobody reported this long before. Even if that filter board really did work (not the SMPS, obviously), sticking it at the end of a long wire would eliminate any benefit.
