I like how Clive only needs "one moment please" to analyse the circuitry and bam: Marked-up printouts, full working knowledge and everything. This guy is superhuman.

@BubbleDouble

10 ай бұрын

He probably doesn't even cut the video, it simply takes him 2 seconds to fully understand the board

@Mitchell527

9 ай бұрын

Someday we will have chips in out head, and pay to access human knowledge date base.

It really bothers me that any manufacturer would go to the trouble of deceiving the purchaser by adding weights to the device. Thanks, Clive.

@Ekriirke

10 ай бұрын

This has been common forever

@j.f.christ8421

10 ай бұрын

Yah, lots of old PC keyboards had rather hefty weights in them to increase the quality. IBM, HP, Compaq etc. The manufacturers would claim it was to stop the keyboard from sliding around, but nah, Feel the quality!

@TheMrMarkW

10 ай бұрын

Bang and Olufsen used to do this all the time to their remote controls. They always felt heavy due to the large block of metal inside them to weight them down.

@Alacritous

10 ай бұрын

@@j.f.christ8421 I liked that. I still buy mice with the adjustable weights because I like them to feel like I won't fling them across the room if I'm not paying attention. The IBM Model M 104 Key keyboard with the mouse nub was my favorite.

@PeTTs0n88

10 ай бұрын

Lol, people comparing ergonomic devices like mice or keyboards (where mass can alter the characteristics of the product) to power supplies. One is more scammy than the other.

I've designed this type of circuit for work. The SDC5091 is a saturation flyback driver IC. It has a depletion mode FET that ties the 2.2uF cap as a bootstrap supply. The IC also has a power MOSFET on pins 5-8. These normally have pin 1 and the bottom as ground. The IC turns on the MOSFET, charging the primary side of the flyback transformer. The opto-isolator triggers the IC to turn off the MOSFET when the core of the flyback reaches saturation. As the magnetic field collapses, it is forced into the secondary side, providing power to the output. When the core is no longer saturated and the output starts to dip, the opto-isolator turns off, triggering the IC to turn on the MOSFET again. The odd configuration of the freewheel/snubber circuit is because you want the primary side to be able to reach a highish voltage while the field collapses into the secondary, but not too high that it damages the MOSFET, or puts the body diode of the FET or MOSFET into conduction. This circuit could just be the resistor and capacitor, but there is a high likely hood of unwanted oscillations. So, the diode is added to eliminate any oscillation. It is common for this diode to be a power zener, or a TVS depending on input supply and flyback specs.

@mohinderkaur6671

10 ай бұрын

Great explanation! Thanks!

@hibbs79

10 ай бұрын

Obviously you are speaking Arabic as I understand none of this

@justsayen2024

10 ай бұрын

Funny that's what I was thinking😂

@alexdavies7112

10 ай бұрын

Hey I know some of these words!

@regi3.1

10 ай бұрын

This kind of a detailed technical explanation can only come from some who has More Head😁

How ironic would it be if the steel block was a counterfeit, hollowed out and filled with resin 😂

@patrickbuick5459

10 ай бұрын

Don't give them ideas lol.

@Shrek_Has_Covid19

10 ай бұрын

resin is expensive... they would probably fill the resin with something cheap like stones

@procrastinator1842

10 ай бұрын

​@Shrek_Has_Covid19 Usually they just fill things with sand.

@pirig-gal

10 ай бұрын

@@procrastinator1842 I used to have a soldering station that had a plastic bag inside, filled with a fine lead shot. It wasn't a scam though, as it wasn't claiming to be anything more than a cheap soldering station. The additional weight was probably so it didn't move too much.

@ropeburn6684

10 ай бұрын

Plot twist: it's steel plated gold pressed latinum 😂

Wow they didn't spare any expense here, they even added the metal fake weight. True quality right there

@Broken_Yugo

10 ай бұрын

And two bridge rectifiers, and not a single abused 1N4148! Still a noncompliant shock hazard with those transformers though, you need that triple insulated wire on the secondary side and flying secondary leads or a bobbin with an extended secondary side terminal strip to properly isolate a winding in a transformer that small.

@zebo-the-fat

10 ай бұрын

not a metal fake weight... it's a real weight!

@RFC3514

10 ай бұрын

@@zebo-the-fat - It's a built-in load.

@sometimesleela5947

10 ай бұрын

Clive might want to give that weight a quick wisk with the geiger counter. I've found that 'easter eggs " like this tend to have a higher chance of being metal they wanted to get rid of anyway., possibly even getting reimbursed for its disposal in the process.

@abs_nobody

10 ай бұрын

... sum of its parts ...

It might be useful if somebody were to do this kind of analysis on the most popular chargers on Amazon.

@marcogenovesi8570

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I wouldn't mind an "Amazon usb charger teardown" series

@samuell.foxton4177

10 ай бұрын

“Super dodgy”

@Broken_Yugo

10 ай бұрын

If you want a safe one just don't buy anything without a UL/ETL mark, and do so in a well established corporate brick and mortar store you can sue with good odds of success if it burns your house down. Places like that make some effort to not sell unsafe junk, on account of said lawsuit potential.

@TheSpotify95

10 ай бұрын

@@samuell.foxton4177 Aah, DiodeGoneWild, I love his Dangerous USB Phone Chargers series! Very interesting, also note that he covers the really cheap ones and he doesn't hold videos ransom for 4 weeks!

@thejusmar

10 ай бұрын

I thought Linus Tech Tips was gonna try doing that. Edit-Post Gamer's Nexus roast: lmaoooooo

The Samsung branding is what bums me out. Normal people would have a hard time accepting that is fake.

@DJOllieK

10 ай бұрын

The bag it comes in should be a clue its fake. They no longer use the blue oval logo on their consumer electronics.

@aaronali822

10 ай бұрын

Is not Samsung its samdung

@whoeveriam0iam14222

10 ай бұрын

It'd break and people wouldn't even know if it was actual Samsung

@ecospider5

10 ай бұрын

@aaronali822 It said Samsung on the outer plastic bag. Few people will check the fine print on the device itself.

@aranpedernales19

10 ай бұрын

​@@aaronali822Smasnug*

I don't know which one I hate more, this one or the one DiodeGoneWild took apart with an LED voltmeter inside. With a display that uses two wires. Because it only ever displays 5.1V.

@j.f.christ8421

10 ай бұрын

The fake volt meter was awesome.

@TheSpotify95

10 ай бұрын

The DiodeGoneWild one showed 5.2V no matter what the voltage was, it was just LED segments lit up to a power source. I think that charger didn't supply the full output current either, as well as having various electrical issues (e.g. missing fuse/interference suppression/safety capacitor being 1kV only/transformer with no isolation etc etc).

@tubastuff

10 ай бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 Reminds me of the speed indicator LED displays on some old PCs. Didn't measure a thing, just switched between two hardwired 7 segment displays, depending on the level of the "turbo" line.

@uzlonewolf

10 ай бұрын

@@tubastuff I remember those, mine had jumpers on the back that could be changed to make it display whatever numbers you wanted.

@tubastuff

10 ай бұрын

@@uzlonewolf I jumpered mine to to show "Hi" and "LO"--I figured that was more honest. :)

Clive is the true master of delicate non-destructive disassembly....

The simple 1 USB port fake black Samsung chargers can be identified by the part number printed on the outside. That part number on the fake one is ETA-U90EWE, which is actually the part number on the white original Samsung charger. The genuine black Samsung charger uses ETA-U90EBE as part no. So I bet this "mistake" in part no can also be the case with other fake Samsung charger types. I used some of those fake Samsung type 1 single USB port chargers for a while, until one night in 2018 when I was still awake and charging my smartphone in the other room when suddenly heard circuit breakers tripping and all the power in the house when off. I found my way to the fuse panel and found out that the fuse on the wall outlets and main switch had blown. So I pushed them both back on, and they stayed on, but suddenly I smell something burning. I took a tour of the house and when I got to the room where my smartphone was charging I found the culprit. That fake Samsung charger was burning with an eight inch flame around it, I ripped the charger from the power strip by pulling the USB cable, and threw it into the sink where I was able to extinguish it with water. Fortunately, the smartphone was not damaged, and i was still awake when this occured and could take action. I have smoke detectors in almost every room,and also in the room where this occured, but the fire started on the otherside of the room then where the smoke detector is installed. Never used a fake charger for a smartphone again since that day.

@ecospider5

11 ай бұрын

Yep it’s crazy how these fail. Failure of not working, ok it was cheap. Failure of it bursting into flames, not cool.

@rolfs2165

10 ай бұрын

Depending on the room size, you might want to either move the smoke detector or install a second one.

@mrfrenzy.

10 ай бұрын

I think the biggest lesson here is never "flip a circuit braker back on" until you found the culprit. If you can't see any problems in the rooms without power at least unplug all devices before flipping it back on so you can be in the room when plugging them back in.

@konradc12

10 ай бұрын

@@mrfrenzy. Spot on! That is my procedure. If the breaker to a particular room only trips, it narrows down the search.

@konradc12

10 ай бұрын

I assume you got these fakes off an internet seller? I won't touch an unknown source. Always from official sources with comeback!

The company I work for was selling some expensive kit to the CHAPS banking network in the mid 1980s (19" rack stuff, circa £20k each). Apparently the marketing director thought the kit was a bit light for that price so the demo unit had two house bricks added for "Improved value".....

Hey Clive. rather than worrying about "plugging expensive devices" into "questionable" PD chargers, you might consider getting some cheap Power Delivery "decoy" boards. These things cost from a couple bucks each up to about fifteen for a fully programmable unit. The most basic ones spoof the PD charger for a single voltage and provide + & - measurement / connection points, slightly more advanced models have short-able pads to select the PD output voltage, and the most advanced modes cost around 15 bucks and use a push-button and colored LED system to program the output. So instead of risking any PD equipment, you can just decoy the different voltages, measure them with a meter & apply a load if you so desire.

@QBFreak

10 ай бұрын

I came here to say this. I have one QC trigger that has a button and LEDs on it to choose between four voltages, and came with the option of USB, screw terminals, or barrel jack for output. And I have several others that are just USB-C cables with barrel plugs on the other end that each operated at a fixed voltage. I think there's also some PD trigger stuff in the my drawer too, but I can't remember now. Aliexpress has plenty of choices, which makes me think eBay will too.

@acmefixer1

10 ай бұрын

Clive already has a variable load to test USB chargers.

@radioflyer2030

10 ай бұрын

@@acmefixer1 Uuhhhhhh.... a decoy board is NOT a load...!!! A decoy board simulates an actual device by negotiating the voltage that the charger will provide... as low as 5 volts for run of the mill USB devices, all the way up to 20 volts for laptops & other high power devices. Extremely useful to have in your kit. The USB test load plugs into the decoy to test if the PD charger can deliver it's ratings.

@ziginox

9 ай бұрын

There are also newer USB volt/amp meters that can act as PD triggers (as well as querying the supply and informing the user of what it supports) like the FN58/FNB58. Might not be a bad time for Clive to upgrade from the old Ruideng meter.

Everyone who is preparing for IELTS test should give this guy a listen.

Wow...the level of deception is high in this one...a hunk of steel flopping around in a mains-connected device is pretty bad. The least they could have done was stick it to the transformers...but I guess that little act was way too expensive...unlike mirrored power supplies :)

@ralphshoop8822

11 ай бұрын

If the worker doesn't spend the 5 seconds to peel the wax paper off they can push out a few more adapters per hour. Something something something, capitalism. In defense of steel weights, I own a computer store and we occasionally open up legitimate manufacturers laptops like HP and find steel weights like these inside them. I'm not sure if the point was to balance them or what exactly but they were there nonetheless.

@tncorgi92

10 ай бұрын

They could have just packed it full of sand but that might cause a thermal issue. At least now you get a nice weight you can use in another project, with adhesive even!

@309electronics5

10 ай бұрын

​@@ralphshoop8822also some pc mice have weights in them

@ralphshoop8822

10 ай бұрын

@@309electronics5 yep. Some gaming mice include different weights so you can customize it to your liking as well. If you do recycling or just like taking lots of stuff apart you find weights in lots of unexpected places.

@celinematerzok6421

10 ай бұрын

@@309electronics5 computer mices are ridiculously lightweight sometimes without these weights. They are there so they basicly dont fly away like a small piece of paper when you open the door next to your computer desk.😂 Exageration besides, they are there to increase friction somewhat controllable, without them you would very easily, accidently or just because of cable weight, have your mice moving on its own.

False weight, you love to see it. I once opened a karaoke microphone and found a huge block of solder inside, dumped in there like chocolate inside an ice cream cone. That block of solder took up 80% of the internal space, and also acted as physical support for a small chip just floating around in the housing.

@mrfrenzy.

10 ай бұрын

That's a nice bit of lead for the landfill...

FYI: The SDC5091 is acc. to one Aliexpress seller a 20W switching power supply PD fast charge chip. Oh and they only sell it in a pack of 4,000.

The genuine 65W Samsung multi port charger is £54 direct from Samsung, so at £15 the price is too good to be true. My recommendation for multi-port chargers is Anker, Belkin, Juicebitz, Spigen. They don’t need to be Apple or Samsung branded.

@gregorythomas333

11 ай бұрын

I use both Anker & Belkin exclusively...never had any issues with their products.

@HoppyStar

11 ай бұрын

I’ve always used Anker to supplement the genuine ones and never had issues. Recently bought a ugreen 65w travel charger, hoping it’s on par with Anker products 🤞🏻 (so far so good)

@Lutefisk_lover

11 ай бұрын

Ditto. Why risk hundreds/thousands £/$ to save a dozen or two?

@Tim_3100

10 ай бұрын

Agree a lot of samsung phones and watches refuse to charge on non safe chargers but ps5 will charge a samsung phone

@Knowbody42

10 ай бұрын

@@Tim_3100 Obviously everyone should buy a PS5 to make sure they can safely charge their phone.

How Big Clive manages to keep the frustration out of his voice, I'll never know... You're so down to earth, sir, and I think you for your calm delivery, cuz I am a hot-headed maniac and I would be screaming at some of the stuff you uncover. Oi, perhaps that's another reason you have a channel and I don't, lol. Keep up the outstanding work.

Quick looking the 6606ACA looks like a Fitipower FP6606AC with the last A a power rating (A looks like a 18W, so very limited QC support, e.g. only 12V so some QC devices may not trigger fast charge)

i dont like how these scammers dirty the name of well respected companies.

A Chinese Watt must be around ⅔ of the rest of the world's Watt. 🙃

You should tear apart those "polymer" capacitors and see if they really are polymer.

@johndododoe1411

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, At least one reliable brand of electrolytics look exactly the same .

I just love your channel through explanation and circuit description.

I once bought a lamp from a Chinese manufacturer. Thinking it "felt" quality because of the weight, I took it to bits and also discovered a bar of steel. Once removed the item was featherweight. Funny how we associate weight with quality!

@AndrejaKostic

9 ай бұрын

It really is funny. I've had a similar situation for a microphone of a Japanese radio transceiver (Icom HM-219). The microphone is actually quite good, but it has two weights on the inside. With the weights, to me, it feels much more solid in the hand. When I remove the weights, it feels like a piece of plastic junk.

@stinkycheese804

2 ай бұрын

Lamp? If the weight was in the base, it was due to being higher quality than the same lamp would be without it. You don't want your lamp to too easily tip over or scoot around, so making it bottom heavy is the right design choice.

Yess, all hail Chamchung 😂 I also bought one from the local store and once I connected it poof it went 😅

"Quality Feel Lump of Steel" would be a good t-shirt

Another brilliant show and tell by BC 😊

almost at a million clive! been awesome watching your channel grow so well

Skipped the transformer autopsy to see whether it falls in the good enough or death trap category. Dumping a chunk of steel into stuff to make it "feel higher quality" is a pretty common trick. I've even seen a review of a Chinese ATX PSU that used a concrete PFC transformer - just a wire cast in concrete.

@Broken_Yugo

10 ай бұрын

You don't really need to unwind one that small, just the fact the secondary is plain magnet wire terminated on a regular bobbin is an instant DQ, it should be triple insulated wire terminated away from the windings.

@TheSpotify95

10 ай бұрын

@@Broken_Yugo There are some transformers that don't have any isolation at all whatsoever...

@Broken_Yugo

10 ай бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 yes, there are different grades of shit, but it's still all shit. It doesn't matter if they actually used tape, you can't use enough of it with a core window that narrow, think of the winding near the edge, easy arc over the edge of the tape. The solution to that is "margin tape" but like I said, you won't have have room for a winding after installing it in a core that small. AFAIK TIW is the only way to actually make a safe (i.e. approved) one that small, and it's easy to visually ID that thicker usually yellow insulated wire coming out of the transformer.

Most informative. I do not profess to understand all that you talk of, but it generally serves as a clear warning.

Excellent video , I was once told Parker chairs put a block of concrete in the frame to make the quality feel better!

Ah yes, the Vice of Knowledge. My favourite tool.

@zebo-the-fat

10 ай бұрын

Don't forget the big hammer of truth!

If that was priced correctly (£1-2) it would just be a fake. But because they charge £15 it would be classed as counterfeit.

@dgwdgw

10 ай бұрын

Because they charge £15 _and print "SAMSUNG" on the label_

@Iwishiwasflying

10 ай бұрын

@@dgwdgwwould it not be the case of a product is purporting to be “Samsung” hence counterfeit. Samsung also has legal rights to pursue due to said product claiming to be genuine.

@tomr6955

9 ай бұрын

@@Iwishiwasflying good luck to them. You do know the Chinese don't know the meanin of copyright? There are millions (probably billions) of fake Samsung chargers like these.

@Locutus

9 ай бұрын

No, both would be fake, regardless of the price. Because they slapped the Samsung logo on there, it is a counterfeit.

The fact it has the capability to negotiate voltages makes me even *more* wary of this thing! It is a perfectly fine piece of functionality if it works, but... IF... I would not want 16v shunting into my Kindle or rechargeable headset thank you very much!

Such clarity showing falsity...Big C... you ROCK! .. across the pond.. DVD:)

Hitting it with pliers gave me a lovely little giggle Clive.I will continue to watch the rest but just had to get that in.

Perfect timing with that video. I just wanted to buy my sister this charger for her Macbook

Hrmm, there really needs to be a USB PSU tester that has a dummy load AND the QC/PD negotiation chips on it. Might be a good idea for a project?

@iamdarkyoshi

11 ай бұрын

You can bet USB PD "trigger" boards that go inline with the dummy load. I have some adjustable ones that let me request a voltage. Gotta be careful what you plug into the USB output jack though since it can go to voltages outside of USB spec without the connected device requesting it, because the trigger board does.

@ConstantlyDamaged

11 ай бұрын

@@iamdarkyoshi Yeah, found some of them eventually (seems like youtube deleted my comment stating that). They came with multiple dummy loads you can plug in that were 20W per load.

@nemesis2264

10 ай бұрын

Passmark Software PM125 has all that but it is NOT cheap.

I remember back when most electronic devices had lead weights added to give the illusion of quality.

@RFC3514

10 ай бұрын

With RoHS, they've had to improve their products and use _steel_ weights instead.

@Toca_waffle843

10 ай бұрын

I know it was done with cameras, but the weight was kind of functional as an anti shake device.

@gs425

10 ай бұрын

It'd the sort of sneaky Jerry trick that thst crook Alan Sugar used to do in his shite products

Yep. The Ikea usb wall warts are my gold standard at the moment too 🖖

A few years ago I built a plastic injection mold for the end caps of a high power power amplifier for Pioneer. In each end cap was clip features to hold a section of concrete reinforcing rebar. Pioneer stated that the customer wants to feel the weight as they don't believe a lightweight power amp develops any substantial power. Heavy sells!

There are qc 2.0/qc 3.0 capable usb controllable loads so you don’t have to use qc devices to trigger qc

For just under £15, you can actually get a reputable 3rd party charger, from a supermarket or similar, which will do just as good of a job (or better). £15 for a fake is too much, though the problem has been made worse in recent years due to many manufacturers of phones failing to supply a charger with them.

@tubastuff

10 ай бұрын

You pay the money for the fake "Samsung" labeling.

@mjc0961

10 ай бұрын

Not a problem at all. I already have too many chargers knocking about, I don't need phone manufacturers to keep supplying them. Not sure who these people are who claim to still need chargers but I suspect they're just complaining to complain about something.

@Tsiikki

10 ай бұрын

@@mjc0961 Sure you have Honor Supercharger? 11 V and 6 Amps? I didn't have it so I had to buy one. Nice try. Did phone prices drop 30 € for missing charger? I can tell you no, they pocket the money and laugh at you.

@johnmood5653

9 ай бұрын

Target has done very nice high wattage output chargers. I have been running my FIRE Stick on one for a year, works quite well

You have the Perfect Voice for potcasts

Very interesting love the lump of steel, I hope it’s good quality that’s the heat sink I bet, nice video Clive to make people aware of these dangerous scams ….

when someone says "i know a guy who knows a guy who knows electronics", this is that guy

I like how the "steel bar of power" hadn't even had its sticky surface revealed. The Chinese time and motion guy saved a full half second there !😂

I bought an rather expensive but great USB tester, FNIRSI FNB48P and it goes from 3.8v (0v if connect extra micro usb for just the tester) to 24v and 0 to 6.5Amps. It can check the charger and cable for every fast charge ability, and also it can force quick charge voltages for any voltage you want then you can test the amp load on the usb c or a output. It also shows voltage ripple graph/oscilloscope down to 3.1 uS and 1mV Can estimate calculate charged current to a 3.6v lipo battery, and is actually within 5% from factory (can adjust conversion efficiency on it for the calculation) I love it and it have revealed one super fake charger

Watt or Whaaaatt? Yeah, you just never know. Thanks Clive for throwing some light on this.

I very much doubt it can deliver 65W, or even 20W for that matter. look at those cute tiny transformers! Max 2A each? It's not a Samsung, it's a Samsong.

Always a great video when the vice of knowledge comes out. As my father in law says..when all else fails, brute force and ignorance

@Ghost63123

10 ай бұрын

I agree, or get a bigger hammer😂

Not since white van speakers with bricks inside has ballast mass loading enhancement technology been used so eloquently.

Clive, coming back to this video now that I know a bit more about things... The reason the feedback circuit doesn't just flip in different resistances is so the supply can vary the output voltage as the device requests, via the Programmable Power Supply (PPS) feature added in the USB PD 3.0 spec. The idea is optimizing the input voltage to best charge the battery. As for the two independent supplies, this makes sure one of the outputs can supply max wattage, while the other two are splitting up the wattage capability of the other supply. The other two ports have to be at the same voltage, and if you connect something, the other port will temporarily shut off while it re-negotiates. There's definitely some excess duplication, though, and no way can this do 65W. As for not wanting to plug expensive devices in, there are newer USB testers that can query and negotiate with PD and QC2.0/3.0 supplies. It's great for seeing what they support, and triggering the higher voltages to feed into a load tester. I personally like my FNB58, but there are other options on the market.

I used to have a handheld game player ( PSP!/MP5! 10,000 games! ) that was basically a Nintendo-onna-chip with a few support ICs to give FM radio, MP3 playback and ( limited ) video playback. It was surprisingly good for NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA emulation. The radio worked, with headphones, and MP3 playback was acceptable. Good battery life too. The screen was clear and bright. One day though, it failed to charge. 'Spicy pillow' was my first thought. Sure enough, the battery needed either Benadryl or Viking funeral. It got the latter. Nestled between the battery and back panel was a strip of heft adding steel. It didn't need it. It was a good product at a keen price. I mackled a BL-5C clone battery in and got another years use from it before mislaying it somewhere. That strip of steel made me chuckle at the time. That it's still being done a decade or so later?, not quite so funny.

Some of those USB testers can exhaustively check all power standards. I'd be curious to know if this supply actually communicates over any of those standards or if the chips are just dummy chips. (Stranger things have happened.)

I found a lump of high quality steel in a charger when I was opening "everything" when I 1st started learning electronics. I thought it was a loose heat sink at 1st till I picked it up. That looks like they didn't skimp on parts.

Watching Fran trying to open a Sinclair portable television yesterday makes me appreciate the odd One Moment Please from Clive for a destructive disassembly...

There's a lot more components than I was expecting.

It might be interesting to look inside one of the recent chargers from Lidl.

Smasnug should figure out who is manufacturing these things and sue them into bankruptcy

@Sashazur

10 ай бұрын

They could spend all their time and money doing that. There are dozens of places making knockoff Samsung phones and chargers etc.

@johndododoe1411

10 ай бұрын

​@@SashazurThey could have a separate team of bounty hunters funded mostly by the lawsuit profits .

@stinkycheese804

Ай бұрын

You think the Chinese court would side with a Korean company over their own subsidized company operating in China? The answer to that would be a big no.

Always a good day when the Vice-of-Knowledge comes out to play!

Almost at 1 million subs! Well done.

Ahh you said vice without _"of knowledge"_ several times and I got sad but then you said to remove the vice of knowledge and my faith was restored!

Reminds me of the cement block some PC power supplies contained in the early 90s 😂

I would solder the steel blob as a resistor or attach it to a transistor as a heatsink. That way it would just be a very good component.

The 431 is being used as a voltage detector, not as a reference. As the ref pin goes above 2.5V, it immediately turns on the optocoupler's led. Actually, that way of using it is quite common as far as I know, and even described in application notes.

The genuine USB QC3.0 high-wattage plug-chargers from XTAR are very good - can be used to power their latest 18650 etc chargers or to power a USB soldering iron. I bought mine from Fogstar online in the UK for £8.49. The latest model on the XTAR site includes an LCD screen.

You should get one of those usb power delivery triggers to test such things safely

26 grams additional mass makes the end user feel the quality. Great video.

Very nice fake reveal clip. Watching this an ideea come to my mind so I decide to ask you here. Those days I was looking into some 2 TB (even 16 TB) ssd memory stick from Aliexpress labeled as a Kingston/Samsung etc wich cost somewhere like 2 to 10 dollars something like this, some ridiculous cheap amount of money. So maybe you can have a look and crack down another fake brand labeled video in the near future. 😊

The chip marked 6606ACA is a Fitipower FP6606AC, which is a dual USB-C PD/QC and USB-A QC charger controller. The last letter denotes what list of USB PD voltage/currents will be presented to a PD-capable device; the A suffix means the USB PD protocol will present 5V/3A, 9V/2A, and 12V/1.5A. The chip marked N603 I couldn't find information for, and searching for an FP6603 didn't turn up any useful data (but there is a datasheet for an FP6601 and it seems similar enough in pinout). From what I can tell it is just a QC controller that looks at the D+/D- lines, but I can't quite make out what is going on with the CC identification lines on that board since it's not a simple 56k pullup resistor to indicate a USB-C power source.

i fell asleep to this knowledgeable video cause the voice is too soothing..

Thanks for the great video 👍👍

It's nice when they include a lump of genuine chinesium for the high qualities weighting... :P

i came for the thumbnail and stayed for the off camera brutality

always nice to see The Vice Of Knowledge :)

I bought a radio shack phone in the late 80s it had a big weight in the headset...just a flat pice or metal. They got me good with that one.

Test that weight with a geiger counter. It's probably just normal steel, but you never know if China will send you something extra spicy.

Now I have your "Cheap sh!tty pink USB charger from China song" stuck in my head. Going to have to listen to that again.

Your power plugs in the UK are great. In the US, a heavier charger box leans away from the wall and eventually exposes the prongs.

@stinkycheese804

Ай бұрын

Why would you be plugging them into a wall in the first place? Multi-outlet power strip FTW! I can't recall the last time I actually plugged one straight into a wall outlet.

@AnoraJohnson

Ай бұрын

@@stinkycheese804 Power strips plug in and hang from the wall too, though. Also, power strips and extension cords don't solve every problem. I watched a space heater that was powered off spontaneously break out into flames while plugged into an extension cord.

Sumsung my arse. 🤣 I dont think I would leave anything plugged in without supervision. 🔥🔥 interesting video 2x👍

Ok bro, you dont mock our good universal American "accent" ... "is it gonna come ooffff?"... and i wont keep impersonating SeanconneryCliveGerardbutlerEwanMacGregor saying im Irish.... hah!

I wish I could understand all this. I still like these things, thougb.

An Amazon special. Have tried to purchase these chargers multiple times from amazon and received at least 3 of these.

I remember vwestlife made a video on fake counterfeit chargers a long time ago. He connected the charger to a camera, and the fake charger was causing radio interference.

All of the Best Buy Stores here in the USA have what looks exactly like that one with side symbols just our 2 prong plug on the back with a little plate screwed on between the prongs. They are selling them for $60 US. If you pick up the package and shake while holding the item inside through the box yo can hear and feel a weighty thing banging about inside. It sadly might actually be a Samsung as advertised.

I seem to remember adding to a transformer like that will change fields characteristics but I'm drawing a blank on what the change will be.

@GabrieleR95

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, it looks like it could couple some of the magnetic field of one transformer to the other.

@johndododoe1411

10 ай бұрын

The main magnetic field forms a square circuit in the transformer metal, so not much magnetic energy leaks into the weight .

@noanyobiseniss7462

10 ай бұрын

@@johndododoe1411 EI transformers are not efficient generally and their fields extend but i have no clue what these little ones are like as i've never dug into them. I have zero clue what your talking about as all fields form nothing other than a vector field arc.

The way you pulled the board out was making me nervous those mains capacitors can give you a real tingle

Haven't seen the vice of knowledge in a while, glad to see it is OK.

Using pliers as a hammer is unhinged

To be fair to the random lump of metal, I've got a few things(every remote I own, and a few computer mouses) that would be improved immeasurably by the addition of a lump of metal. Of course, there's a difference between a lump of metal just randomly in a power supply that might possibly lead to undesirable operation and a lump of metal to improve the feel when used.

You need to get one of those fancy molten hairdryers so that you can make an autopsy of the transformers.

Plot twist the tester and load simulator is also fake :P

Clive, instead of using a vise or cutting things, you should get an arbour press and add mini screwdriver flat head attachments on the head. It would prove itself for ultrasonically welded boxes like power adapters or warts, and other things.

@Broken_Yugo

10 ай бұрын

I just hold one corner on the concrete and hit the other with a hammer, takes up a lot less bench space.

Years ago I got an Sandisk SD card that was fake. But not only did it work at the advertised size but it also ran just a little faster than the real Sandisk.

Somebody should compile all Clive’s schematics into ‘Big Clive’s Book of Revelations’

"is it heavy? then it's expensive, put it down!"

I approve of the Vice of Knowledge name!

Not usually a good sign when they've had to add the "feel the quality, feel the weight" lump of metal. 🤣

The vice of knowledge is back at last