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Is there such a thing as an adapter that will plug into your cigarette lighter and give you more cigarette lighter holes if that makes sense ?
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drewster
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yes look on ebay
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I wouldn't buy one off eBay. Cheap Chinese ****e that bursts into flames first time you use it, and that did actually happen to mine lol.
Lidl have them in at the moment, look to be good quality and are German made. If I had a cigarette lighter I'd be buying one from there
Lidl have them in at the moment, look to be good quality and are German made. If I had a cigarette lighter I'd be buying one from there
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Just pointing 110 in the right direction
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Ooohh if id have known they were actually called cigarette adapters id have looked myself. ..silly mare 
Another question. .can you plug in 2 phonesa camera and a sat nav without blowing anything up or is there a limit what you can actually use despite how many holes its got ?
Another question. .can you plug in 2 phonesa camera and a sat nav without blowing anything up or is there a limit what you can actually use despite how many holes its got ?
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Yes if you up rate the fuse but be careful you don't burn the wiring out
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Those will be fine, just don't try lighting three cigarettes at once
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You have to change the fuse in the box by the gear stick ?
Aren't they that strength for a reason ?
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Yes it's down to the currant drawn by the socket going to a 5/7.5 amp fuse should be ok on td5 wiring
just so when you are running your full compliment of kit it dose not blow the original fuse
just so when you are running your full compliment of kit it dose not blow the original fuse
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Didn't totally understand that but got the answer was yes. If they don't come with a fuse when you buy them do you just go to halfords to get one...are all makes of car fuses the same ?
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If it has a cig lighter in it the fuse will probably be 10 or 15 amp anyway. Cigarettes lighters draw a lot of current. I wouldn't increase the stated fuse rating, the wiring is designed to support that level of current draw.
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Just pop down to Halfords. Basically, each item you plug into the lighter socket will draw electrical current (measured in Amps). The original socket is fed by a wire from your battery through the fuse box and through to the socket. If the current being used by the socket is too much then it will protect itself be blowing the fuse in the fusebox. So, if the original socket was designed for a maximum25Amps and you have three items plugged into it, drawing, say, 50 Amps, the fuse will blow. Just make sure that the total Amps of each item, when being used at the same time, does not exceed your fuse capacity. Hope this helps now get out for your walk.
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I once set fire to a Volvo tractor unit after plugging in a 24 volt kettle, the loom caught fire. Luckily I was able to put the fire out myself, I never owned up to the reason for the fire but since it was well over 20 years ago I apologise to the guy at Volvo Trucks Exeter that had to come out at 0300 in the morning. Thereafter I powered the kettle straight off the batteries.
Providing you don't overload the circuit (with a kettle for example) you should be ok charging phones and running a sat nav.
Providing you don't overload the circuit (with a kettle for example
) you should be ok charging phones and running a sat nav.
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exactly my point
I once set fire to a Volvo tractor unit after plugging in a 24 volt kettle, the loom caught fire. Luckily I was able to put the fire out myself, I never owned up to the reason for the fire but since it was well over 20 years ago I apologise to the guy at Volvo Trucks Exeter that had to come out at 0300 in the morning. Thereafter I powered the kettle straight off the batteries.
Providing you don't overload the circuit (with a kettle for example
Aren't Volvo cig sockets 12 volts ? melted the fuse on one with my 24v kettle years ago
Cig lighters draw a lot of amps and are fused accordingly, three sat navs will be no problem
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Aren't Volvo cig sockets 12 volts ? melted the fuse on one with my 24v kettle years ago
Cig lighters draw a lot of amps and are fused accordingly, three sat navs will be no problem
The newer FH series have 12 and 24 volt sockets, not necessarily marked as such. But the drivers manual does show which is which.
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A the risk of keeping things nice and simple. I got one of the triple adaptors from ALDI/LIDL (can't remember which), and regularly have a Satnav and 2 phone chargers plugged into it without any problems
. I got one of the triple adaptors from ALDI/LIDL (can't remember which), and regularly have a Satnav and 2 phone chargers plugged into it without any problems
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A the risk of keeping things nice and simple
See nice and simple works for me
But I kind of did get crashboxes explanation too so feeling quite heducated
Drew, im sure it is what you said ..maybe, probably, possibly. ..I just didn't get it
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Have just purchased one of these and the usb connection will not work with an iphone, but the sockets seem to take a Tom Tom sat nav, Belkin tunecast connected to my iphone and portable DVD player all at once without blowing fuses.
Probably won't last too long, but cheap enough to throw away.
