Twin Car Cigarette adapter

[Dan Williams]

Not sure if this is the right newsgroup, so apologies in advance if not. If
anyone has any other suggestions about where to post to, i'd be most
appreciative.

Anyway, I currently have a Creative Dabs Jukebox MP3 player plugged into my
car cigarette adapter and use it with a tape deck in my car stereo.
However, I have recently purchased TomTom GPS Navigator for my Pocket PC.

I'd like to be able to use both devices in my car at the same time so was
wondering if there's a product on the market that will allow me to do so?
Is it even feasible and would my cigarette socket be able to cope with the
electrical demand?

I'm in the UK.

Many thanks

Dan Williams.

 

[Don Bruder]

In article <sim9yi5rpcig$.1sv60q305d4tu$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Dan Williams <dan_williams@newcross-nursing.com> wrote:

Not sure if this is the right newsgroup, so apologies in advance if not. If
anyone has any other suggestions about where to post to, i'd be most
appreciative.

Anyway, I currently have a Creative Dabs Jukebox MP3 player plugged into my
car cigarette adapter and use it with a tape deck in my car stereo.
However, I have recently purchased TomTom GPS Navigator for my Pocket PC.

I'd like to be able to use both devices in my car at the same time so was
wondering if there's a product on the market that will allow me to do so?
Is it even feasible and would my cigarette socket be able to cope with the
electrical demand?

As long as you aren't trying to draw more than the wiring/fuse to the
lighter socket will allow (most cars seem to fuse the cig. lighter at
either 10 or 15 amps, either of which should be WAY more than adequate
for what you're trying to do), sure, it'll work just fine. As far as
being available, yes, there are such things. They're cheap, and at least
here in America, you can hardly go into an auto parts store or
electronics place that sells car-related gear without tripping over a
rack filled with several different styles of them, each with anywhere
from 2 to 10 sockets, and costing anywhere from 2-3 dollars all the way
up to 20 dollars or more, depending on how "fancy" they are.

Personally, I gave up on those sort of things back when I was running an
MP3 CD-player on a tape adapter into my stereo (basically the same thing
you've already got, just different media), my laptop that kept track of
my 200+ mile paper route, GPS unit for the laptop, and spotlight, all
wanting cig. lighter sockets. Trying to run them all at once was just
getting too darn clumsy to cope with using "rabbit sockets", so I gave
up and chopped the ends off each of their cords, wired myself a separate
fuse block directly from the battey, then wired all four items to the
new fuse block. Made things *EVER* so much nicer to deal with, and I can
still use my lighter for its intended purpose - helping give me cancer!


Of course, now that I've dumped the paper route, and gotten a "real"
CD/MP3-capable car stereo, I'm down to only needing to power the
spotlight, but that extra fuse block is still handy every now and again.

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[Peter Hawken]

"Dan Williams" <dan_williams@newcross-nursing.com> wrote in message
news:sim9yi5rpcig$.1sv60q305d4tu$.dlg@40tude.net...

Not sure if this is the right newsgroup, so apologies in advance if not.
If
anyone has any other suggestions about where to post to, i'd be most
appreciative.

Anyway, I currently have a Creative Dabs Jukebox MP3 player plugged into
my
car cigarette adapter and use it with a tape deck in my car stereo.
However, I have recently purchased TomTom GPS Navigator for my Pocket PC.

I'd like to be able to use both devices in my car at the same time so was
wondering if there's a product on the market that will allow me to do so?
Is it even feasible and would my cigarette socket be able to cope with the
electrical demand?

I'm in the UK.

Many thanks

Dan Williams.

Dan,

Halfords have two, three and four way adapters. They are about Ł5 upwards
but any of them will do the job for you
Peter