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iBook G4 to G3 Clamshell Mod
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For safety of course, those Chinese replacements are utter crap. And you just don't want to deal with utter crap which itself deals with high voltage. When that goes wrong, it goes catastrophically wrong. Just check how many housefires are started by crappy device chargers either blowing up or catching fire themselves, or causing the battery of the device they are charging to catch fire. If you are using one of those Chinese replacements, only use it when you are around, always unplug it when you're not!
I would stay away from Chinese knock-offs completely--they are not worth the risk to you, your computer, or the rest of your property, even if they claim to be UL-certified or equivalent. The UL certification is easy to fake, and knockoff companies often have no qualms about faking it.
Counterfeit chargers often don't have proper filtering, and can damage your computer. They also often have unsafe tolerances between low and high voltage lines, increasing the possibility of a short.
This article has a teardown of a knockoff iPad charger and compares it to the legit one, and is quite frightening (and the author says that the knockoff he has isn't the worst he's seen!)
Counterfeit chargers often don't have proper filtering, and can damage your computer. They also often have unsafe tolerances between low and high voltage lines, increasing the possibility of a short.
This article has a teardown of a knockoff iPad charger and compares it to the legit one, and is quite frightening (and the author says that the knockoff he has isn't the worst he's seen!)
