NiteCorn charges use unique corn charging technology that can’t be faked. They need no verification system.
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Damn! Me too. I’ll need to start a new thread “DD selling fake chargers ……”
Mine , bought from DD , too .
Any chance we can get refunds ? 
I don’t know why it took me til yesterday to find Nitecore’s page describing fakes and the magnet test.
I did email them at the address they provide where they ask people to contact them about possible fake chargers:
EDIT — not sure which charger they picture here, anyone recognize the innards?
(And yes, they really did misspell their own company’s name, but the picture shows the capacitors labeled “Nitecore”
not “Niteocre”)
And I don’t know — yet — whether that test is only applicable to chargers they made recently (like late in 2014 when they published that page).
But I’m curious, now that they have published the magnet test — and the pictures showing where to find the Nitecore name on parts inside their chargers.
What ya got and when did ya got it from where?
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Looks like those identification for newer product
saw this Nitecore charger teardown
what i can identify, they use chong-x capacitor 
> magnet test … labeled parts
As I read the page, their description applies to all of their chargers (at least, the ones currently being made).
No reply yet from Nitecore on the one I got in 2012. No problems with it, so this is curiosity at this point.
I see DinoDirect still sells the Nitecore I4. They have a picture (as of today) of the innards, but I can’t tell whether it’s what Nitecore says to look for!
I have an I2 from 2013 that fails the magnet test but from everything I can see and test it’s working fine. It charges my lithium’s a bit over 4.2v but still well within specs. NiMh’s come off right around 1.5v so it’s basically working fine for them too.
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I left a request at DD for comment on the 2012 “Nitecore I4” that fails the magnet test, and asking if the “Nitecore” I4 and D4 chargers they currently offer for sale will pass Nitecore’s magnet test and if looking inside the components are labeled Nitecore as they should be.
They promise a reply within 2 days. We’ll see.
PS, at Nitecore’s site, it looks like they changed something about their chargers in 2014, as their pictures show “2014 NEW VERSION”
so my hunch is still as before — I’d guess the improvements include changing the contacts from steel to copper (and that would mean, I’m guessing, that the new magnet test announced late in 2014 would apply to the current not the older models).
I haven’t heard anyone mention finding a fake 2014 model. Check the package; I don’t know if you can tell old from new ones other than what’s shown in that picture.
If you’ve tested yours — please mention whether or not it’s a 2014 model.
hmmm...
My I4 doesn't have metal sliders.
Metal sliders was introduced on the 2014 my
The magnet test is for the contacts — the metal button for the positive and metal whatchacallit sliding piece for the negative.
I’m guessing by “sliders” for 2014 you mean, well, I’d call it the track — looks shiny in that 2014 picture — the part on either side of the moving piece?
Yeah that part is black plastic in my 2012.
What else did they change?
My D4 from BG (bought 2014-06-17) has nichicon and fuxiang capacitors but passes? magnet test (negative contacts are magnetic, positive pole contacts and sliders aren't).
My Nitecorn charger kept getting hot and popped all my corn.
so i'm selling it and getting the new Niteocra
*with nichia and flux capacitor ^
I ordered the Niteocra.
They sent me a Niteorca!
I can get my money back if I pay return shipping back to China...
but the cost of shipping would probably exceed the value of the item.
What am I supposed to do with a six ton killer whale?
Dig a moat around your house and build a drawbridge. Feed him Nitecorn and Niteocra twice a day.