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I just thought I'd post about these things. I got one about a month before I moved house (so the reciept's long gone by now!!!) only to find at the weekend that it has literally blown up. The cabling somewhere inside the radiator is totally charred and black, and I found some chunks of black stuff and a screw on the floor underneath. Looking inside through the grille on the base, a connector block has melted and burned for no obvious reason. If you too own one, if I were you I'd either check it's innards or take it back to Lidl for safety reasons. That's one Lidl bargain I'm not happy with, and now I'm sleeping on my sofa as my bedroom is freezing cold... 
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Not being funny here mate, but if you have found something wrong with a potentialy dangerous item i would report it to trading standards.. Only a child could have one of these in his/her room and could set fire. You know the rest. Not reporting it because you want to see what the innards looks like isnt very clever...
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My System: Skymaster DCI9900 + PC/twinhan combination. 80cm dish. GBPVR with 2 DTTV cards +hauppauge Media MVP | If it's less than 2 years old I'd still take it back. I don't think Lidl would put unsafe kit on the market and would want to know of a problem | ||
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | I opened it up last night and the connector block was in very, and I mean VERY bad shape, the Live and Neutral sides were damaged, the brass connector in one of them is missing (I found the screw on the floor) and the other side has the brass part protruding through the plastic (both sides had melted away). I'm contacting BBC's Watchdog as they get more publicity than just sending a letter to TS, and if there are any other people with the same radiator with the same problem, then a lot of people will find out and get them returned to Lidl.
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Haha good idea.. russel hobbs springs to mind.. keep us informed
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | I just found my USB cable for my camera, so here's what I took (ok ok, they could have been higher res, but heyho)...
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My System: Sky Digibox Pace 2200, 3 remotes, 2 mice, 2 splitters, a amp adder thingi, a Thomson universal LNB & a zone 2 dish..... With foamy whatsit coax | All looks perfectly ok to me  Lidl ......... Jeyzerz ......... Three steps down from Amstrad So Ok the chockky blocks got hot ........ Any reason why ? ........ Were the wires loose ? ....... Did somone pee on the heater ?....... Is the heater going again ? ...... Wrap it up in loadsa tape ......... Smashin'
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My System: Various digiboxes, broken Nokia 9800S, numerous analogue boxes. My lovely little lappy, HP Omnibook 6100 | Judging just on the photograph I would think that Trading Standards might be interested. Lidl (and Aldi, Netto etc) all source these from the far east at the very cheapest price they can get. Sometimes, perhaps, a corner is cut too far?
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! |
But as for the chokky blocks, haven't a clue, if one was loose then one side would have fried and the other should have remained ok, but it hasn't, I personally think that they weren't rated for the job and overheated causing the damage as depicted in my photos... I haven't gotten the radiator any new chokkies as I want the really big chunky ones, so no, it's not working again yet...
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My System: Sky Digibox Pace 2200, 3 remotes, 2 mice, 2 splitters, a amp adder thingi, a Thomson universal LNB & a zone 2 dish..... With foamy whatsit coax | How many ya need ? ......... I got some Kin hooge ones on my shower at the mo ...... I'm taking them off tomorrow ........ So ya could have them ....... They don't get hot with 11Kw's (Or so) runnin' thro em ........ Big enough ya fink ?
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My System: Sky Digibox Pace 2200, 3 remotes, 2 mice, 2 splitters, a amp adder thingi, a Thomson universal LNB & a zone 2 dish..... With foamy whatsit coax |
  (I got some lidl pop once ...... Fell asleep holdin a glass of it ........ The marks are still on the sofa) 
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! |
I think I spotted some in a box at home last night so I should have some, that's assuming there's nothing else wrong with the radiator... As for the fizzy drinks, well, I stay away from that as it's loaded with food colourings (as you found out), and I have enough of that in my cupboard in my kitchen...
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My System: Sky Digibox Pace 2200, 3 remotes, 2 mice, 2 splitters, a amp adder thingi, a Thomson universal LNB & a zone 2 dish..... With foamy whatsit coax | I've recently replaced my heating ......... I had to cut the shower wire .......... Its a long story ........ Gotta proper Jcn box fer it now tho .......... I gotz a Old boiler Cylinder & radiators If ya good with a spanner ya could be in luck
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