It has seemed difficult lately making sure I get an entry posted here. Perhaps that's an alright thing.Pretty soon, I'll be bragging about completing fifteen years of daily blog entries. My written content varies a lot. For example, I may write to remember the details of our travels or make comments about items I've bought. Sometimes, life is not stressful and there's not as much to share at all. That's definitely not a bad situation!
Today, I guess I could comment on something I bought, considering I have an interesting photo to go along with it. The device shown here is the wifi interface to the LED strip I recently installed on our balcony. Last night, when I asked Google Home to turn on the LED Strip, he insisted the lights were offline. I went outside to check and found the controller had melted although it had worked fine for a week and a half.
I'm sort of glad it wasn't installed in a flammable, inside location! Its short circuit could be a one-off for the cheap, Chinese component. However, it gives one hesitation about a similar replacement, doesn't it?