THE VIDEO SHELF · usb charger safety
Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.
Big Clive takes apart an IKEA Koppla USB power supply to assess its safety, looking at isolation and transformer construction.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as a teardown of a well-made, safe USB charger, and as evidence for why quality chargers matter.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- bigclivedotcom
- Topic
- usb charger safety
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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TL;DR: spend the $19 to buy a real, big brand USB charger because they have more to lose than grey market no brand. Tragic. Probably cheap USB without mains isolation or maybe enough water dripped down length of cable and socket to create a circuit, …
BrailleHunting on Hacker News · 2017-03
In Man dies charging iPhone while in the bathAlso of interest is this teardown of the Koppla USB power supply: [VIDEO] It's also a pretty darn good piece of kit.
fnord123 on Hacker News · 2017-04
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