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Cigarette lighter style 12v adapter to connect to battery?
Am looking for Car Cigarette lighter style 12v adapter to connect to the bike battery. For example to juice a gps or recharge batteries for a phone or digi camera.
A mate reconned you can get them cheaply. One wire will connect to the + pole and the other to - and somewhere in there, there's a rectifier and/or fuse. Just tried the hein gericke website and it's useless. Any idea where to look? Am in the UK, but mail order from Europe is no prob. My old airhead BMW had one, but that required a "BMW to rest of the world adapter" which I got from Motorworks. I now have a Honda. Cheers ChrisB ------------------ TheBrightStuffDotCom |
Hey!
If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a 12 V connector (cigarette connector)? Have you tried the first local car spare parts shop? Get a connector, some twisted wire (red and black, maybe 3 meters of each), a heavy duty fuse box (those rubber type ones, which can stand some spray water), a fuse for 5 amps, and some connectors to fix all those together. Fix the black or (-) cable straight to ground somewhere nearby the battery. But not on it! Take (+) voltage using your red wire from any (+) wire, which is alive when the ignition is on. On 12 V connector, (+) wire goes into middle or centre pin. (-) voltage goes to circular or outer connector. +Pasi |
Have you tried www.maplin.co.uk, or as above, any car accessories retailer.
------------------ Kevin www.4x4-travel.co.uk |
What I did last week was:
-buy a 12V extention lead -cut off the male plug -soldured O ring (how do you call these things -that you sqeese tight on on electrical wire in english?) on -Fitted 10 amp fuse in + lead. takes 2 minutes to connect to the battery. The female end goes in the tank bag and powers a GPS. |
The car type ones will rust on the bike. If you don't mind spending a lot more then go to a boat place - they have ones that won't rust.
The bmw ones are a DIN standard - used on tractors ... some car places are starting to carry them - thay don't rust. |
Yep, I had a car type one on a bike that was reasonably well sealed from the wet but filled with corrosion quite quickly. Surely someone does a sealed unit that can be fitted to any 12v bike?
Matt |
Hi there,
I got mine from mailspeed marine - all the metal parts are brass and there's a cap for when its not in use. http://www.mailspeedmarine.com/Produ...4-19e4c0b43cab Hope this helps, Bal. |
Bal
Tks for the tip. Ordered it last week. It arrived today. Looks exactly like what I require. Cheers ChrisB ------------------ TheBrightStuffDotCom |
Suzuki sells them. the exec burgman comes w/1 and i had another installed.
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Of course, you can even dispense with the relay (direct off the battery), but the lighter will then be powering the GPS even when the ignition is off - and may wind up discharging the battery if anything drawing a large current is being used while the engine is kept switched off. |
I just did this operation. Mt suggestion:
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Marine / Sailing sockets
As Wheelie implied a good bet is to look at sailing shops or a local chandlery. they sell various types of sockets and plugs etc including the standard 12v cig lighter type and the "BMW" Din plug. Also LOT cheaper that the "specialist" bike shops that sell them.
http://www.sailgb.com/c/12v_plugs_sockets_connectors/ |
Cig Lighter
AEROstich has a sealed unit that looks pretty good and the one I will be using on my RTW. Reasonably prices as well.
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I got mine from here.
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I just got back from my trip...
I regret not having wired the adapter so that it would turn on and off with the ignition switch... it was a pain in the ass HAVING to turn it on and off at the end of every day's ride. I once forgot to turn it off for two days with my communication device still plugged in and ran the battery dead. Although I can think of incidents where the separate switch would be useful in adition to an ignition operated switch, in hind sight I wouldn't have bothered with the separate switch and would have just have gone for an ignition type switch. You could use a relay and still get power directly off the battery or tap into a wire that gets a constant feed when the ignition is turned on, for instance the positive feed that runs into your head light switch (in, not out), or for instance your brake light wire which allways has juice running through it... It could however be wise to get some advice from someone who is a specialist with your bike. There may be certain switches, relays or other circuitries on your bike that might not agree well with having extra juice drawn through it. |
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