Aldi bulkhead light.

Welcome to the future of crash certified electro-labourers. That was the whole point of apprenticeships and formal theory training. I'd always use a drip loop, and wherever possible enter at the base of an outdoor cabinet.

Big Clive

A fun journey as always, Clive!

Michael Thompson

Aldi recently had the bulkhead light here in Ireland. There were plenty still on the shelf last weekend, probably due to people opting for solar-powered PIR lights that both Aldi and Lidl regularly get in. Like the UK, they often sell products with their own branding, so the brand is meaningless for quality. E.g. I recently bought a Reka DAB+ portable radio at Aldi that has brilliant sensitivity, plenty of features and technical menus. A few weeks later Techmoan posts a video about a terrible cassette boombox also Reka brand bought at Aldi, completely lacking in features, e.g. completely mono audio.

Seán Byrne

There are two branches of the Aldi family. In Europe, they confusingly both use the brand name Aldi - in the US, one branch runs Trader Joe's and the other runs Aldi.

Glad to see the little Part P dig in there! Not all Aldi stores carry all the specialbuy items. The store near home has dozens of these in, but the one near work didn't stock any. Another Aldi light - it looks like it uses the LEDs as a voltage divider to supply to the IC; Ignore the first 6 minutes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl3Qjd5dkOI&t=382

Andy Brown

I guess that's how all US Aldi's are. That's the way they are here in Pennsylvania as well

David E. Blankenship

There's an Aldi here in Texas that has some electronics and non-food, but mostly it is food. It's tiny. It's like one aisle more than a gas station/convenience store. At the checkout they put the stuff right back in the basket and then you go to a bagging area to bag it yourself. Also you need to put a quarter in to get a cart. You get the quarter back when the cart is returned.

Nani Isobel

One of the Aldis is known as Trader Joe's in the US, but they really only sell food.

George Dorn

Thanks Clive. Our local Aldi has sold out.. Perhaps the Techmoan effect is now the BigClive effect...?

Nuts 'n' Proud

Yeah, I guess people are mixing it up with the Dassler brothers, who split into Adidas and Puma. No Albrecht brothers were involved in Lidl afaict, other than perhaps as inspiration.

I was ridiculed on a site a few weeks ago for installing a drip loop on an outdoor KNX sensor I took through a wall, two electricians, one of them running the sizeable new build job from a large firm claim to never having heard of drip loops.

The Tinkering Shed

Think the Aldi/Lidl brother thing is an urban myth. Aldi was originally owned by two brothers which split into Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud. Btw - both Aldi and Lidl are quite good with their warranty. Have had lots of things fail and it was either swap in store or new item delivered to the door.

John Carr

Their battery tools are pretty good, and my local Aldi seems to be one of the few in Australia that gets a decent supply of batteries for them. But sadly (and as is their wont) they make one size of battery and it's quite small (2AH?) so no decent tools or decent run-time. But for the price they're hard to beat.

Moz in Oz

In the NYC area it is mostly a no frills grocer in less affluent areas. They do tend to have gadgets in my experience. They also had certain dietary specialties I appreciated before they became more common.

Jason Brinkerhoff

Yeah, we have Aldi here in AU, it's about 70:30 groceries and random other stuff over here. Some of the stuff is pretty decent, some of it is crap.

Jrandom Bob

We have Aldi stores in Kansas but they are chiefly grocery stores, not many gadgets. That may be because of the different voltage in US as opposed to the civilized world. (Did I say that out loud?)