Another typical cheapo USB charger from ebay in ever-stylish pink. Just because it's a slimline charger doesn't mean it needs to compromise on safety though, and with its promising clearance on the PCB being completely defeated by bad component placement this one does. Add the rather dubious looking suppression capacitor and uninspiring transformer and you have yet another pink USB charger of death.
I have three european USB chargers and all have come with appliances. The Lenovo is biggest with straight body like the pink one in here but much thicker. The Samsung one is second although it has a bigger body the figure 8 connector to change the pins takes much of the space. The Doro is last and is just the same dimensions as the pink one here.
Hi Clive, I need a decent quality 13A USB charger, I have seen you go through a few but would make would you recommend now please. I am put off by anything less than a tenner but that said you don't know WTF you are buying anymore for any price.
I love the hungarian flag on the death adapter 🙂 red white green
Clive, can you explain why most USB chargers do not have an earth wire, but others do?
Clive, would you do a teardown of an authentic Apple ipad charger?
Don't ever buy cheap and fake charger
Is this how that poor guy in the UK recently accidentally electrocuted himself in the bath using a USB charger on his phone? How did that happen if the output is only 5v/1A ?
where can I get one? ohh yes that world wide garage sale ! an Led just lit up above foxys head
it's time to sing along with Clive, pink shitty USB charger from China song. 🙂
Scary " one layer of lacquer between you and certain death ? " :O
I had one of these blow on me, it blew the orange cover open, which is otherwise a tight fit an it was had to get off (once I had refitted it). It had been working OK, I had removed it from the socket to put a USB connector in, I had rotated it 180 degree before I put it back in, so the pins were in the opposite socket, I didn't think it should make any different, however it blew as soon as I re inserted it. I think it was due to the rotation but I can't prove it, another possibility is I used a different USB slot, ie one which had a problem.
I am very wary of these chargers now, cheap but very dangerous.
I've known a few girls that had pink death traps. 😉
All these adaptors are left in plugs by people so they are on all day, how many fires are caused ?
Let's discharge the cap before touching it – takes metal screwdriver and pokes the cap 😀
Ah ha, you have taken apart just like the one i had that caught fire!! And then blew the fuse in the plug gang