{"id":10563,"date":"2013-07-25T21:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2013-07-25T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:41:39","slug":"tiny-cheap-and-dangerous-inside-a-fake-iphone-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10563","title":{"rendered":"Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I recently wrote a popular article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcfn.com\/2012\/02\/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html\">the history of computer power supplies<\/a>, which led to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com.test.getcachefast.com\/item?id=3636047\">speculation<\/a> on what&#8217;s inside those amazingly small one-inch cube USB chargers sold by Apple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005OT05IE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rightocom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005OT05IE\">Samsung<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00474KHBW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rightocom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00474KHBW\">RIM<\/a>, and other companies. In the interest of science, I bought a cheap no-name cube charger off eBay for $2.79, and took it apart. It&#8217;s amazing that manufacturers can build and sell a complex charger for just a few dollars. It looks a lot like a genuine Apple charger and cost a lot less. But looking inside, I found that important safety corners were cut, which could lead to a 340 volt surprise. In addition, the interference from a cheap charger like this can cause touchscreen malfunctions. Thus, I recommend spending a few dollars more to get a brand-name charger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.righto.com\/2012\/03\/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html\">Ken Shirriff&#8217;s blog: Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote a popular article on the history of computer power supplies, which led to speculation on what&#8217;s inside those amazingly small one-inch cube USB chargers sold by Apple, Samsung, RIM, and other companies. In the interest of science, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[320,1178,283],"class_list":["post-10563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-ee","tag-power-supplies","tag-tech-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}