Fifteen years ago I stalled a bus with my analog cell phone!!  The
driver asked me to please finish my call!!  The bus would idle, but
apparently I got in to some kind of control circuitry!!  And that was
less than a watt!!
Pat, K9JAUAt 02:19 PM 1/6/2006, you wrote:
>I have found that in most newer cars, the cigarette lighter plugs are fused
>with a 15 amp fuse, and the wiring is usually 14 gage.
>Remember that a cigarette lighter when heating draws lots of amps, and they
>have to design the wiring and fusing to accomidate fairly heavy usage of the
>burner.
>This said though, most new vehicles dont even have the heater element in the
>plug, and the actual plugs are called accessory outlets.
>But its always good practice, as has been said, to try and avoid the
>cigarette lighter plug if you intend on running more then 25 watts out of
>the mobile.
>When i was young and stupid, i tried running a 500 watt 13.8VDC tube CB
>amplifier out of the cigarette plug, along with the 30 watt SSB radio i had,
>the consequence was a very well melted plug and likely nearly a fire....i
>remember the first time i keyed it down, the vehicle stalled lol.
>Apparently in that particular vehicle the cigarette lighter was wired direct
>to the battery or something since the huge draw should have blown a couple
>fuses.
>73
>Colin, V A6BKX
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:16 AM
>Subject: Re: LDG Electronics tw2 is out
>
>
> > Most times they don't recommend using the cigarette lighter for that
> > purpose. The wiring is not large enough   Ed K7UC
> >