Using low-quality phone charging cables, users are 'joking' with their own lives and relatives

Currently, there is a large number of users who believe that the phone charger cable accessories are not very important. They said that my phone is good, I can use any charger. Therefore, many users are now willing to spend tens of millions of dong to buy a new smartphone but will not spend a few hundred thousand to buy a set of genuine charger cables to find cheap products of unknown source. Root floating on the market often to use in case the cable comes box no longer.

Recently, researchers at the University of Michigan published the results of a survey on the consequences of using poor quality charging cables for phones. According to this report, many cases of users have suffered severe burns, even electric shock when using cheap charging cables.

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During the investigation, these researchers discovered many accidents involving poor quality phone charging cables. The highlight of this is the case of a young girl (19 years old) who suffered severe burns from using a 3rd party charger. While the girl was charging, using the phone, the cable touched her neck. Because the charger cord is not safe, it has leaked electricity and caused the girl to suffer from level 2 burns.

In another case, a man puts his plugged phone next to him while sleeping. The charging cord leaked electricity, causing the man to be shocked with electricity to fall off the bed.

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The girl was using a phone charger cable.

According to Professor Carissa Bunke, who leads the project, although the devices are low voltage, if the intensity of the current is strong enough, it can still make the victim shocked. In fact, there have been many cases where both charging and using the phone lead to fire and explosion, which have serious and even deadly consequences.

Researchers have experimented with 400 floating, unidentified iPhone chargers to check if they guarantee electrical safety requirements. The results prevented them from worrying, 99% of these charging cables did not reach the required safety level and 22 of them failed during the test.

With this alarming result, users may need to pay more attention when buying and using phone charger cables, it is best to use genuine brand name products. In addition, to avoid causing danger to themselves and those around them, users should pay attention not to charge and use the phone as well as remove the charger from the power socket when not in use.

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