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Unswitched Power for Cigarette Lighter
Posted by gerrytc (more from gerrytc) on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:36:51
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I've been trying to figure out a way to get unswitched power to the cigarette lighter outlet so I can listen to my Sirius Radio or charge my cell phone with the ignition off. Thought I would share my solution.
I didn't want to hack into the wiring, so I found this little doodad for $8.49 at Pep Boys. It's called "Add-A-Circuit". It lets you piggy back two fuses (the original circuit, and your "new" circuit) together into one fuse slot. I made an adaptor out of this and a spade from a sacrificed fuse (see the pictures below. Hope the link works). I plugged it into fuse slot 20 (interior lights, rear fog light, and ACC?) which is unswitched with the original fuse in one slot, and a 3 AMP fuse (they supply 4 fuses with the kit) for the cigarette lighter. I'm never going to use anything that draws much current, so I figured this would be safe. I then pulled out fuse 34 (to the cigarette lighters), and inserted the spade into the bottom slot which feeds the cigarette lighter circuit.
Seems to work fine, and I can always pull it out and put it back to the original configuration, or use a different fuse circuit in about 30 seconds. Hope this helps someone who's trying to do the same thing.
-Gerry
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