As long as the unit price of a product getting high enough, the customer base is large enough, and the profit is large enough, as a result, the market will be full of fake products. A good example will be the iPhoen 4, in 2010, jobs released the iPhone 4 in the United States. Once it was launched, the price was hyped up to 1W+, but this wouldn't lower the growing consuming rate. Some even sold kidneys to buy the phone. In the face of such a crazy market, there are a lot of "apple-like android system" high imitation mobile phones on the market, the slightest mistake will be profiteers pit.
                                     
Of course, it is not only the mobile phone that has been counterfeited, but also the charger as an accessory of the mobile phone. The quantity of counterfeits is incrediblely huge. Even Apple has put the unique little green point as a preventing infringement logo on the 5V1A charger for many years , and the fake chargers were everywhere. The new iPad Pro released by apple last year is equipped with a logo of usb-c 18W PD charger. The official price of the charger is $37. Such a high unit price makes it difficult for most consumers to get their hands on it.


The fake chargers are mainly used by profiteers to replace the real charger to earn the price difference, the fake charger also flow to the retail market, and even play the rule of "discharger", so that many price-sensitive consumers bought the fake charger with no awareness. In addition, I will compare the real and fake products, and you would be able to tell the difference between the real and fake products without disassembling them.

Here are two fake apple usb-c 18W PD chargers: fake A and fake B：



Among them with fake A looks more realistic comparing to fake B, be honestly, the majority of people will probobaly not be aware of the difference . It can be seen from the end face of the output interface that there is something wrong with the charger of fake B, the model is obviously misaligned, but if you look at the charger of fake A, both the color and the model are very similar to the real charger, which is hard to distinguish.



However, there is still difference. If you carefully look at the tongue part of usb-c output interface, the tongue part of the real iPhone 18W PD charger is very neat and fine, without injection burr.



There are obvious burrs on the tongue surface of the fake A charger, and you can see the traces of glue overflow, and the tongue is still crooked.



Although there is no obvious burr on the tongue surface of the fake B charger, it can be seen that the metal parts on both sides of the tongue are completely different from the real products. Usb-c female port is another style.


Let's have a look at the end face of the pin. This side is marked with the nameplate parameters on the charger. The model of the true national standard 18W charger is A1695 and the American standard is A1720. Both of the two fake chargers are imitated by the United States standards. The realand fake chargers can not be identified from the charger model alone. However, it can be seen from the position where the pin meets the shell that both of the two fake chargers have excessive glue and poor workmanship.



If we zooming in on the details. It can be seen from the picture that there is no gap between the white face and the gray face of the real charger. Although the colors are different, the process looks like produced from the same inductry.



The workmanship of fake A charger is not good as fake B , as you can see there are obvious gaps.



The fake B charger also has a gap.



Let's take a look at the weight of the three chargers. The real charger is 61.2g.



The fake A charger is 60g, very close to the real charger.



The fake B charger is 42.5g.

Summary

Many profiteers got rich by selling fake apple PD charger , many of the fake charger called "high imitation" appeared on the market simulation degree is uneven, with the small make up to get both hands' high imitation, of which the worst fake B, very easy to see why, leave A, are under A lot of kung fu, all imitation is very similar in both appearance and weight.

The purpose of this page is to enable consumers can directly judge the real or fake charger based on apperence. By observing the usb-c tongue, AC pin, and the connection of the white and gray plastic surface on the back, if possible, it can also be measured by weighing.

In the end, fake products might cause horrible damage to our safety. If you buying a new iPad Pro in a personal retail store instead of Apple store, you may want to pay attention to whether the matching charger is replaced with a fake one. Please do not focus on the cheap price but not safety, consumers should choose the official channels to purchase, or choose a reliable third party brand, safety compared with "fake" will be more safer, for your own safety, learning how to tell the real and fake is never a bad thing.

 

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