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Recently, I had come to Kerala. One of the things that I had brought to Kerala, was a power strip with 4 sockets. It was branded by Syska and that’s a pretty well-ranked company so I never expected it to have any problems within the warranty and after that as well, but, unfortunately, mine was built with a defect, a crazy defect to be specific. When it arrived from Bangalore to Mumbai, the solder joint on the wires that connect the neutral was loose. I used it for a good week or two and the solder joint hadn’t come off during that period of use. Then I came to Kerala, oh wow, the solder joint came off. I guess this had happened during the taxi journey in which we had travelled through a fairly bumpy road, enough to break a really loose joint. I didn’t know that this had happened because I never risked opening the power strip. So when we reached home, I didn’t use the Syska power strip. Instead of that, I used a Belkin power strip which had good solder joints and that was working fine for 6 years. When my online classes had started, I used the Belkin power strip and my father used the Syska one for his Work-From-Home. The loose solder joint hadn’t fully come off by now but it was on its way out.
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One fine day, TOOF and the main MCB tripped. We never even in our dreams suspected that a Syska power strip would cause that but, it did exactly that. We quickly figured out what was causing the issue with some MCB fiddling and plugging stuff out. The live wire of the power strip had touched with the neutral wire. And that’s the moment when I lost trust in Syska.
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