Are Non-Apple i-pod Replacement Mains Chargers Safe?

carnivalist

10-02-2009

Not too much to add to the title.

I find it quite incredible that apple - a.k.a Dick Turpin - can justify charging nearly twenty pounds for a mains charger.

I'm assuming there's no fancy doohickey inside that justifies the cost, so which replacements are safe?

russellelly

10-02-2009

Originally Posted by carnivalist:
“Not too much to add to the title.

I find it quite incredible that apple - a.k.a Dick Turpin - can justify charging nearly twenty pounds for a mains charger.

I'm assuming there's no fancy doohickey inside that justifies the cost, so which replacements are safe?”

Any charger which has a USB socket that you can use with your own iPod-USB cable will be fine. Nothing fancy in the official ones.

lawrenma2

13-02-2009

A lot of the ones you see on eBay only work a few times, then break, and I tried the charger for my PDa but didn't work. Do see your point though, as you grudge forking out £20 for the official one.

Best way is to just charge via USB on PC for all the time it takes anyway.

Brass Drag0n

13-02-2009

Originally Posted by lawrenma2:
“A lot of the ones you see on eBay only work a few times, then break, and I tried the charger for my PDa but didn't work. Do see your point though, as you grudge forking out £20 for the official one.

Best way is to just charge via USB on PC for all the time it takes anyway.”

I got one for £5 from eBay a few years back, because I wouldn't pay Apple's extortionate prices, and it's still working fine...

In fact a couple of friends of mine asked me to get them adaptors after I got mine and they're still work too.