Power Adapter Source

[bjf]

I'm buying power adapters on eBay that are most certainly not from Apple (just based on price) but I'm pretty convinced my current source is getting them from a factory in China that has the same (or extremely similar) manufacturing setup as Apple (as in they borrowed the specs from Apple and are creating perfect knockoffs.) The difference between these and other knockoffs is night and day. They look and function flawlessly. Does anyone know of a direct source for something like this? Somewhere you can buy large quantities?

 

[Haywire]

While they may seem to be identical and "perfect" knockoffs, I can guarantee that they are not as perfect on the inside. They all use crap components and bridge a lot of "unnecessary" components on the pcb to save on each unit. It would take a lot more than my 10 fingers to count the number of melted and deformed chargers that come in to me that people bought off of ebay for $10. Spend the money and get the real deal. Especially when diagnosing boards.

 

[bjf]

Thanks, yeah, I've verified that it's just really convincing garbage. Duke gave me a good test. Any thoughts on how to get genuine adapters in the $20-$40 range? New or used is fine. This has nothing to do with fixing boards - I haven't used a non-genuine adapter in my life - just for selling to customers. I have no interest in selling firestarters to people so I'm trying to find a good source of functional adapters.