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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
Power biscuit
Charger.
Garbage.
I'd call them USB adapters; "chargers" is probably slightly more common though never sat right with me since they can be used to power things other than charging.
Or more in the past we would call any kind of power adapters "transformers" but don't seem to hear that much any more.
Technically they are power supplies.
A transformer can be a power supply, but on it's own it can only transform AC power between two different voltages, so it can only be an AC:AC power supply. The number of windings on one side vs the number on the other, will determine the ratio of your voltage change.
But a pure transformer AC:AC power supply is not particularly efficient. A transformer's power rating is based on the overall number of windings it has, and on the power frequency.
So if you're lowering the voltage, it's more efficient to use mosfets to chop up your voltage at a very high frequency, then run that high frequency voltage through a smaller transformer.
And with DC power supplies, they not only need to lower voltage, but also smooth it out to a single unchanging value, and this results in an even more complex circuit where you first rectify the wave so that it's all on one side, then you chop it at high frequency then transform it, then smooth it out.
So transformers are still involved, but typically they're just one part of a larger whole with these.
Yeah, I'm sure you're right, my comment about transformers I guess was more about colloquial usage, i.e. rightly or wrongly we called DC power supplies transformers in the 90s. I also don't know how local that was, maybe it was just my family!
Adapters for upgrading your home’s firmware.
Charger
Wall block USB wall block
Most of the time, we just call it block , I’ve never heard of wall wart. Today I learned…
USB wall adaptor
Everything you said was except for dongle. I absolutely would not accept that in my household.
Isn't it a mobile charger?
Charging brick. I don't think I've ever heard them called anything else besides a charger.
Plugs?
It appears the manufacturers call them power adapters
Wow I’m the only one that called them “cubes” like “do you have a usb cube?” Or “do you have a usb-c cube?”
Now that you make me think about it I think I've been calling them different names depending on what I intended to use them for, most of the time (I'm translating) I call them phone charger but I also called the power supply or usb power supply when I wanted to power something else.
Never thought about it.
Latauspalikka
Charging (or charger) blocks, or just "chargers".
Phone block
Charger.
The charger/phone charger. Since it's the most used charger it's just the default if we're not specific
Wall charger or charger brick
Power bricks Plugs
shaboops
At one point we called them USB chargers. Nowadays, though, I just call them e-waste. Every thing I’ve bought for the last few years has been USB-C, and chargers for those usually come with a 10w type A port.
USB wall-wart
USB chargers
A proper na.e would be an AC to DC adapter or a DC power supply.
Standalone USB chargers. Or in Dutch I'd probably just call them USB -opladers.
When it is a product that I don't know what the general term is, I look it up on Wikipedia. Usually, the different names for the item are discussed right there in the introduction and often have pictures.
If I am not satisfied with that result, then I find the product on a shopping website, and see what it is called there or what category it is in. In order to sell it, customers have to find it, which is why this is an effective tactic.
LEGOs older brother.
Firestarter
Wall block
USB Jacks.
