Thanks HKJ. I bought a genuine Nillkin adapter based on your review. Without your in depth testing, tear-downs and inspections, most of us would have no idea what to buy to safely and properly recharge our devices. I was surprised how many chargers and adapters are dangerous counterfeits/no-name models that deliver “dirty power” and lousy performance.
Also, thank you for not being a shill by avoiding affiliate links in all of your posts.
But wont maintenance of the list be a pain in the bum? Every time is see a large table, or a some kind of long list, I think about the "iframe feature" (insert media) of the forum. Hmmm ... But that would only make sense if it was hosted/maintained elsewhere
I wanted two or 3 fail levels, the first one being failure at the 5000 volt test, the next one being failure at the 2500 volt test and then there are chargers with very low safety distance or non-safety capacitors. The first one will fail the voltage test, the second one will usual (but not always) fail the 5000 volt test, but usual survive the 2500 volt test. The problem with non-safety capacitors is that a failed capacitor may short and that can be deadly.
This can happen when the phone is charging and you are not touching it, maybe due to a lightning strike a few km away. Next time you touch the phone while charging and you have a solid ground connection will be very bad luck.
My skull ratings means:
1 skull: The charger failed the 5000 volt test or I found something inside it that is a bit doubtful.
2 skulls: The charger failed the 2500 volt test or the capacitor is a non-safety capacitor or I found something serious inside it.
no skulls: The charger may pass a CE test, but I do not have any proof it does.
Checkmark: The charger do pass a CE test, I now this is true because I have seen the test report or I trust the company and know the charger is real (I only trust a few large companies).
Passing a test for use in US is seldom relevant, because most chargers are marked 230VAC, i.e. they can be used in Europe and must live up to the CE regulations. The standard used in US and EU is the same, but the test values and safety distances varies.
If anybody has problems seeing the contents in the window please post a note.
If nobody has problems I may change the first post to use it.
As I wrote at the start I do not plan to update this thread at regular intervals, but if I can use a Iframe without problems that would fix the update issue.
I note sometimes the black horizontal line separator is omitted between a couple of items — in one case they look almost identical.
Is that meant to gather 2 items together if that black line is omitted, as being similar?
A header line with “Last Revised Date ” would help keep people aware it’s not always current.
I know Iframes have some security issues, that’s all I know about them. Don’t know if it’s specific to the user/browser or the web page host or ??
Normally they’re blocked by my personal settings (in NoScript)
I already have some new Apple chargers, performance looks acceptable to good and I will also expect safety to be good.
If would also like a real Samsung, I expect performance will be about the same as the fake, but safety will be better (It will not be missing the plastic shield).
> missing lines
Yep, peculiarity of either Firefox, or of the default zoom setting I had in Firefox; zooming out makes all the divider lines show.
And default Chrome shows all the divider lines.
It’s just that at some point a single line of pixels gets omitted on my screen. No worries about that.
> Iframe
If the blog host here understands them and can assure us they’re ok here, I can set my security (NoScript) to allow them on this site (or maybe limited to this one topic).
I mention it because someone else was hoping to use them in another thread a few weeks ago, so I guess it’s a general interest tool. No clue where it is or isn’t secure-able, sorry.
From my laptop i tried, firefox, explorer and chrome. All seems to work
From my phone (samsung galaxy s3 - android) i tried both the native browser, and chrome. Both seems to work.
Other than that I have no experience with iframe. I dont' know about the security issues of iframes, but a google search of iframe issues gives a lot of hits on not to use them. So maybe it's not a good idea.
If there are any web-programming gurus with iframe experience in here, feel free to chime in :-)
No. They are appropriate. Especially since too many people use junk chinese AC devices. Even several people on BLF. I hope the skulls makes people pay more attention. I would like to see the 1, 2 skull ratings added to your reviews as well.
After reading your previous post, I discarded some cheap ones I had ordered. Buying night lights, I found some on Amazon that say UL listed. I am hoping that is sufficient to indicate safety.
Look for items that are sold direct from amazon (not just ships from amazon). Failing that get a major brand and be sure its not mailed direct from china.
If the ones you give green checkmarks to are available with US plugs from known good sellers, it’d be useful to point those out if anyone can do that.
I’m sure the dangerous ones will be much easier to find (sigh)