Do not make same mistake, test your component before you leave Yebo Electroncs Boston Bellville

This may be a long review but it is more a lesson's learned for all the other hobbyist and school project learners who by their components from these stores.

I have previously purchased small electronic components from Yebo Electronics Boston and had no problem.

Recently I had a new project building a dehumidifier for my Biltong and needed to install 4 x 12v fans. I popped in the store to see if they have stock of the 12v fans.

They had a box full available. They where priced a bit high so I popped in next-door to Brights Electric Boston around the corner. They where priced nearly half the price but I only had two in stock so I bought the two and went back and purchased two more plus 4 x fan protector grids from Yebo Electronics. The two sets differed in the Brights fans where the 3 wire fans with the speed measure control wire where the Yebo Electronic fans where 2 wire fans.

At neither stores did I ask the store attendant to test the fans. After 2 weeks building the dehumidifier, I was ready to install the fans and wired them parallel into a 12v power supply that I recycled from one of my unused devices.

Two of the fans (Brights) started up and the two Yebo fans did not. Initially I thought the micro thin wire connectors did not make contact in the connector blocks. I tested the current with my multimeter and found no continued circuits on both Yebo fans.

I then consulted my brother in law who is a electrical engineer in specialised electronic and computer devices. He confirmed no current throughput.

Went back to the Yebo store counter and the counter assistant tested the fans and found the same. I asked him to test other fans from the same box. These were working. He then decided that he cannot swop the fans out for two working and tested fans. Bit irate I "dropped" the fans on the counter as they had no use and I could not spend more time to establish if the motor was fried. Went around the corner to Brights and they had new stock of the 12v fans, bought 2 at R102.00 each. Although I again did not have them tested, the store attended assured me that if the do not work, I just have to bring them back if they don't. Went home, wired it up and it worked like the other two.

So the lessoned learned was, I should have tested the electronic component's before I left Yebo Electronics so that I did not have to doubt if the stores fans was faulty before or after I left the store. On the other hand, Brights electrical gave me the confidence to take that risk.