Why are my iPads not charging?

Between my wife and myself we have 4 iPads (two are minis) and over the last few months they have all started displaying the "not charging" flag up by the battery icon.  They will charge fine when turned off (although I have no idea if the rate of charge is standard in that case).  I am using all 2.1A chargers so I assume that the potential is there (haven't really measured them), and have probabl changed out most of the cables to non-Apple cords (I can't tell them apart in most cases).  I am suspicious of two things: iOS updates that have had some charging effect, and the use of non-Apple cords. 
I've tried the reset as described in other posts related to this condition, but without success.
Is there something that I should know?

Thanks for your attempted help guys, but it has not been fruitful.  I will take a couple of my chargers, cords and iPads to the local store and see if they can (1) tell me why the iPads aren't charging, (2) how to differentiate Apple chargers from non-Apple chargers and (3) help me replace whatever I need to replace.  What I know is that in the future, whenever I pull a charger out of an Apple box (purchased from Apple), I'm going to mark it with a big permanent "A" on the side, because all my chargers are identical, but I'm pretty sure that some were purchased off-market. 
I'll publish what I learn.

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