Nice. You might find these articles (from 2012) useful:
"Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package"
"Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger"
"A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best"
"Macbook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter"
Patent: Flextronics Integrated power converters
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I hope they don't lie to you.
Who? :)
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this is useful!!!
can you also record the voltages the supply imposes on the USB D+ and D- pins.
This tells the load how much current it is allowed to take. thanks
mark
I meant to do that. Someday I'll get around to it, though not all of these are still in my posession.
Except for the bogus white Samsung which didn't work at all, they all seemed to be reasonable in charging speed. I suspect that one had incorrect or no programming voltage.
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Purchased Original Apple 5 W charger on eBay in sealed box. Very convincing but almost certainly all a fake:
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Purchased a 5 W A1385 on eBay sealed in Apple box. Very convincing but almost certainly fake:
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