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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This is a wall plugged charger with USB A -> please stop calling it dongle. I am sure we can at least agree, that dongle is factually wrong.
Charging brick, or power adapter.
I can’t think of a better term for these.
I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks
It’s only a brick if it’s separated from both the outlet and the device it’s powering by cables. Fight me.
🤔 you know I think you might be right. I’m going to continue calling it a brick it out of spite.
Spite is one hell of a motivator. Being hunted by hyenas is another. There’s probably others, too.
Isn’t that in itself a moniker?
USB charger.
wall wart
I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.
Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don’t have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it’s tiny. It’s at most a wall pimple.
wall pimple it is then
USB adaptor
If context is unclear might add a “mains” or even “C” in the middle as needed.
Squares
The wonders of spanish
Fire hazard
USB charger brick.
Cargador (Charger)
uhhh ‘do you have a charger butt?’ or 'hey, you got a buttplug? [while holding up my phone and shaking it] ’
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”
I have a 2D
The D is for you babe…
“You’re still flat? I told you if you can’t get 3D, we’re done!”
I have a 2D
I think that pic was faked.
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. Modern high speed USB just has a whole conversation with the plug where they agree on whether to use Not Wavy 5V, 9V, 15V, or 20V.
Okay, but also:
Simple. “USB Power Adapter”.
Top 2 are plug adapters (and probably power adapters too. I would call the bottom 3 power bricks, I guess the defining thing is bricks have a permanent cable.
those are all power adapters. they’re just different ports to adapt. so bottom right is a dc power adapter, middle right is also a dc power adapter. top left is a global power adapter. top right is a power adapter with 2 usb a ports. bottom left is unknown since we don’t know what the other end is.
GOT EM
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.
Bricks, or brick for that lone loose one that pops up in mysterious places around the house. Seriously, who would ever just put it on the end of the banister?
