Monday, 16 September 2013

"Episode 1" Phone charger from China

So I decided to buy "Samsung" travel adapter wall charger from China.

Heres what item specification says:

Compatible brand: Samsung (yes true and other phones too)
Type: travel
Power Source: A.C. Source (true)
Socket type: For EU (That's what it was, so it's true)

Now here's promised input and output power:
Input is typical 100-240v,50/60Hz (this was true, no problem)
Output was promised to be 5v(true) and 0,7A (normal samsung travel adapter gives 0,5A output amps.

Product serial number is copied from original Samsung Travel adapter product which is: ETA0U10EBE

Here's in first pic what it looks like in product description and second picture wheres the product and it's circuit board.



Now look at these photos. At the left we have fake Samsung Travel adapter and as you can see it's charging with half power than original Samsung Travel Adapter which you can see at the right picture.

Fake gives 0.02 Amps / under 2,2 Watts           Real gives: 0.04 Amps / 5,3 Watts


Note that I don't have right equipment to measure voltage, amps and so on. But this shows the truth.

Promised charging value was 200mA higher than original 500mA charging rate and what you really get was half of the real charging value. Original charger is not the fastest due it's low charging value 500mA so think about half of that 500mA. It tooks many hours to charge your Samsung S3, S4.. with this under 250mA fake charger.

What you can learn about this is that when you see charger that says in description that it's value is 1A, then it might be 0,5A or not even that. Well low price = garbage. Remember that Chinese always cheat!

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