
More fragile than the originals years ago as it's now made in China (like everything else). This is not necessary, you risk damaging the adapter, also keep the adapter by the base when you connect something, otherwise you can do the same. made my own extension for this) but I'm also 6ft 6in so that was never a problem. Note that you are drawing a lot of amps/watts from a dual output adapter or you may run into problems.