This is the reason why I don't trust a $600 iPhone and $800 iPad to chinese chargers. I can bet my money on something extremely similar being in the wall outlet.
http://www.arcfn.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html
Wow.. Quite telling!!!
I wonder how many other power supplies / chargers are like that?
Many years ago when Bell Telephone first came out with the Trim-Line phone, I got one installed in my brand new apartment that I moved into a couple days prior. It had a transformer that needed to be plugged into the wall to power the lighted dial on the phone. Transformer was plugged in behind my sofa.
I came home the next day to smoke in my apartment which had actually erupted into a full blown fire. The transformer had shorted out and set the sofa on fire as well as the wall. Most everything in the apartment was either smoke, fire or water damaged to the point of destruction.
My point here is that even UL Listed "made in the USA" electronics can go bad.
BTW - I got absolutely nothing from Ma Bell on that fire - not even an apology. Instead I saw a picture of the very transformer that burned me out of my home printed in every phone book for the next 10 or so years with warnings of it being a fire hazard.
Also - as a very young man at the time, I was hoping to buy my insurance with my next paycheck. I had none and lost almost everything...
