Cigarette Lighter Adapters

[Aruffell]

I went to a local Motorworld store and found a cigarette lighter adapter. One end plugs in and come off into a block of 4 with switches as i have 2 different phones and a sat nav unit. For some reason it seems very tempremental. So i'm on the lookout for another one, so does anyone know where i can get one from, as ebay only have cheap, tacky, nasty looking ones.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy

 

[LeperousDust]

If anything you'd be better hard wiring the charger to say the satnav and the 'almost permanent' things into your cars electrics, so its easier for you, less cluttered and nicer looking. All you would e left with was a wire protruding from where you see fit that you can wrap up when not needed.

 

[Rilot]

The only proble with hard wiring some things is that a lot of them are powered from 5V as this is the voltage for USB. A lot of the tab-lighter adaptors have a 12V-5V step-down transformer in them so simply cutting the wires off and hard connecting them to the wiring loom results in some dead equipment.

 

[Puzzled]

You could always wire in the cigerette adaptor, and then just plug your devices in as normal.

Just extend the wire a bit so you can hide it somewhere.