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Cory Mac

UK electrician and YouTuber "Cory Mac", owner of ØY Electrical Ltd in Poole, Dorset, known for electrical, off-grid and solar content on his 190K-subscriber YouTube channel.

Oct 18, 2026

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you
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the...
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I did have big issues with it until they offered to pay me.
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No.
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I had...
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I had issue with it.
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I remembered I have a mortgage.
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like 28 years not to do that.
AaronGUEST
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... here's a picture of it." And then I put out a thing, "If you live in the, in Europe and you have it," and I got flooded with messages
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messagesUm, from different people that had it installed, and I said, "Oh, okay, so it's not a new thing." So I said, "If you would be happy with me coming out and looking at your installs, then I wanna make a video where I actually investigate it for myself." So one of the brands that reached out to me, um, Anker...
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Well, I offered three or four brands exactly the same video, and I said, "I will make your video if you let me give my honest opinion." I s- 'cause right now I'm skeptical, and if I suddenly am not skeptical, well, then I'm a sellout because here's all the concerns I have with it.
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Putting power back through a plug, that just feels wrong.
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Um, dodgy DIY installs, um, panels hanging off of balconies that-
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[laughs]
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And how happy they would've been had I have not been happy, I don't know.
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But they, they s- gave me the thumbs-up, and then I found a guy in Germany literally just off of Instagram and, uh, I only thought about how, oh, actually, maybe this is, like, a bit of a safety concern, just turning up and meeting a stranger off the internet.

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