Worthwhile to buy a 3rd party ipad 3 charger cable?

RumRat

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Because £15 for a cable is a rip off?

Fiver......HERE
I have 3 cables, apart from the original. One was a £2 from ebay and that overheats. The other two I bought from the pound shop and they work fine with both the iPad and the iPhone.

GT60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
More fakes but good copies

Big_Graeme

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

So pay £2-99 and risk your house burning down? :laugh:

We are talking about the cables here not the charger, a cable is just a set of wires with a plug at each end.

RumRat wrote: »

Fiver......HERE
I have 3 cables, apart from the original. One was a £2 from ebay and that overheats. The other two I bought from the pound shop and they work fine with both the iPad and the iPhone.

Cool, my poundshop cheapy has vanished and I couldn't find another, it worked fine with the real charger too.

Big_Graeme

Ah hang on, that's for the 30 pin cable not a lightning cable.

Big_Graeme

GT60 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
More fakes but good copies

Another who has failed to grasp we are talking about cables not chargers.

InsideInsurance

Big_Graeme wrote: »

We are talking about the cables here not the charger, a cable is just a set of wires with a plug at each end.

A Lightning cable isnt just a plug at each end, it has microchips which allegedly enable the reversibility of plugging it in - though why they are in the cable and not the port I dont know.

Its how iPhones etc can detect if its a licensed cable being used or not but for now you just get a warning message.

Given the power has already been transformed by the charger however I would consider it to be any more of a fire risk than using the same charger with a genuine cable.

Big_Graeme

There are only so many ways you can wire a 2.1amp 5v DC supply to charge a battery or transfer data, Apple are at it.

InsideInsurance

Big_Graeme wrote: »

There are only so many ways you can wire a 2.1amp 5v DC supply to charge a battery or transfer data, Apple are at it.

Exactly, hence why its necessary to have some extra bits to deal with being able to invert the plug.

That all said and done, USB has 4 pins? Never understood how that then goes to a 30 pin connector in a meaningful way. Not that I've ever given it much thought either.

JasX

Personally I've never had issues with 3rd party cables -> of course I'll always look for one in the £3-£7 from a vaguely reputable supplier as £1 are usually terrible quality and just too cheap to make a decent one for the price.

but I find paying over the odds for cables one way to avoid leaking ££s unnecessarily

sleepyjones

If you do get a cheap one I wouldn't ever leave it unattended (ie don't leave anything charging when you go out or go to bed).
There are some horror stories of cheap knock-offs starting fires (as already mentioned).