No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I’ve called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you’re asking someone if they’ve seen any (______)'s
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POWER ADAPTER Mode: YF-W36-2U Input: 100-240v~50/60Hz 0.35A Output: 5V=2.4A Total
*Hey babe do we have any YF-W36-2U?"
“Sorry hon only 2E”
“Dammit”
Wall voltage = 120V and wavy.
Old USB = 5V and not wavy.
These adapt the two. They’re also known as power supplies. The bricks in laptop cables are also power supplies, they can just handle more power.
wall warts
This is it, this is the one.
bricks
I second bricks. If it matters I’m in the southern US
Interesting, for us bricks refers to the rechargable portable USB power devices they sell. I don’t even know how to describe them properly without calling them “bricks” or “power bricks”.
Power bank would be the term or battery brick/bank if you wanted to meld both terms.
I think “brick” started because laptop chargers used to have the adapter like an actual brick (most still do).
Since phones can get away with smaller power cables, the brick got stuck onto the regular power socket.
And since they use(d) less juice, the brick isn’t a brick anymore.
AFAIK batteries are power banks, but brick and bank sound alike so I guess it got lost in translation a bit.
How funny, I am in the south too.
Correct answer!
USB chargers
We call them Handyladegeräte, and I think that’s beautiful
Had to check that out.
Handy = mobile phone
lade[n] = charge
geräte = deviceshttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Handy
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/LadegerätI sometimes also use Netzteil.
(Literally: Net thing. The net is the power grid)
Phone charger
But in the case of the ones in the pic, fire hazzard
Fire hazards
I’m reading through the comments and pretty much I’ve heard them called all of them and I’ve called them most of them
Except a wall wart
AC adapters
I call them ‘…a brick, a power brick… a charger, no, the part you plug…’. Lmao, I carry one of these, whatever its cursed name is, with me literally everywhere I go so I don’t have to ask for the thing. I feel you sib.
See also: portable USB memory.
Edit: unless you need another thing! A power bank? ‘This?’ Taking out a brick. A usb-c cable? ‘What?’ Phone charger? ‘This?’ No, the cable… thanks… sorry this is usb-a I’m gonna need the brick as well… ‘the what?’ Smh.
Charging block/brick
Power brick, power adapter, or USB charger are what come to mind for me.
I gotta say I disagree heavily with your fiancee on dongles. IMO dongles are adapters for data of some kind, not just power from the wall. But to each their own I guess.
Wall wart
“Wall Warts”
