Cigarette

The cigarette lighter powers the device but the device plug that plugs into the lighter melts.
If it is not made for that kind of thing, Can I buy one that is, and is made to go into the car? All I can find is replicas of the original. Where do i find said lighter.

Add a 20 amp fuse in line on the positive side of the lighter. The older cars lighters required a higher amperage to work.
Hope this helps. Christopher

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I use a breast pump to pump milk for my baby. I will be working at a festival where I have no electricity and I don’t have ready access to my automobile to plug into the cigarette lighter. My husband wants to rig a car cigarette lighter to a car battery somehow so I can plug the equipment in and use it in our tent. Will this work? I called Batteries Plus and they want me to buy a deep cycle battery and inverter instead, but it is REALLY expensive.

If he can build a circuit to limit the amperage, then yes. otherwise the 40 Amps cranking power of a car battery will cook your pump and maybe your breast.
The lighter socket only comes with wires. The circuit will need resistors to set up the circuit properly.

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I want to run the MP3 plugin adapter (12 V) which runs thro’ the car cigarette lighter by using dry cells. Would that be possible? How many cells would be required?

First you need to get a 12 volt lantern battery, that will provide all you need. they have a large capacity. second. the wattage is actually based on the fuse. a 20 amp fuse gives 240 watts. Ohms law – Volts x Amps = Watts, a 25 amp fuse gives 300 watts, and so on. your mp3 adapter prolly uses very little power 50 to 100 watts, so you should be ok using a lantern battery. if you wanted to pack 8 AA batteries together, you could also do it that way, however, it will drain those 8 before it would drain the one lantern battery. if you do decide to go with 8 AA or 8 c’s or 8 d’s, (all will give 12 volts and enough current) go to radioshack and ask for the appropriate battery holders. this will make the project neater.

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I recently figured out that my cigarette lighter isn’t working on my 90 Toyota pickup. I don’t know if there is a fuse thats gone out or if its the whole entire lighter. I really need the lighter for cell phone chargers and other things.

Just put the fuse from lighter in place of another fused system of equal amperage and see if that system still works. If it does fuse is good.

Another thing is that its possible, whether it was used or not, that the plug might be corroded or rusted. Especially if it was used. The extreme heat from the heating coil being shorted out can cause aot of corrosion.

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