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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
My family calls them charging doots
Edit: or also sometimes “wall-to-usb adapters”
Power biscuit
"Thingie"
Or in my language -- "Negocinho".
A Negocinho and a Cabo ("a thingie and a cable") make a phone charger ("carregador de celular")
Ah! A Chingadera!
uhhh 'do you have a charger butt?' or 'hey, you got a buttplug? [while holding up my phone and shaking it] '
Egg.
Plug adapter - UK
Block
Wall charger
Landfill
USB bricks or USB chargers
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-Power-Supply
Charger.
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.
Charger block
Adapters for upgrading your home’s firmware.
USB wall adaptor
Isn't it a mobile charger?
Charging brick. I don't think I've ever heard them called anything else besides a charger.
Butt candy.
Power dispenser
When I'm speaking English, I think I call them USB-to-outlet-thingy. Otherwise it's almost, but not exactly a direct translation: USB-Stecker.
Everything you said was except for dongle. I absolutely would not accept that in my household.
USB charger ("usb-laddare"), also when they are used as a permanent transformer.
Charger block
Fire hazards?
Don't order them from AliExpress.
