Cigarette lighter, Always on?

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IT seems the Cigarette adapter stays ALWAYS ON.

is there a way to only make it turn on on ACC?

if not, i dont want the wife using/driving it or else she'll leave components
on and drain power.

97 Mark.


Thanks
 
Most vehicles are always on. You could simply re-wire it to the ignition circuit.
 
almost every ford has a constant power socket, you could put a relay in to shut it off when its not in acc (i have done this to EVERY ford and lincoln i have ever owned)
 
I actually prefer that it is always on. If I am charging my phone and shut the car off, the phone will continue to charge instead of being interrupted. Also, the amount of the drain overnight is going to be so small that it isn't an issue. If the car is going to sit for a few days, just unplug whatever it is that you have plugged in there.
 
Blenderhead said:
I actually prefer that it is always on. If I am charging my phone and shut the car off, the phone will continue to charge instead of being interrupted. Also, the amount of the drain overnight is going to be so small that it isn't an issue. If the car is going to sit for a few days, just unplug whatever it is that you have plugged in there.
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nsjuice said:
IT seems the Cigarette adapter stays ALWAYS ON.

is there a way to only make it turn on on ACC?

if not, i dont want the wife using/driving it or else she'll leave components
on and drain power.

97 Mark.


Thanks
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There is a few ways you could do this.

IMO the best would be to just use a relay inline of the existing power feed to the cigar lighter, switched by an accessory/ignition hot circuit nearby (ie radio)


This would be incredibly simple to do. Just cut the LB/W wire which supplies power to the lighter, wire the upstream side to pin 30 of a standard 30/40amp automotive relay and the downstream/lighter side to pin 87. Wire pin 86 to any ground (lighter ground is fine) and wire pin 85 to one of the ignition hot circuits (in this case, one of the BK/PK ignition/accessory delay inputs to the radio would work well)


By doing it like this you are keeping all the load on the cigar lighter's circuit, rather than just tapping into another, but the relay will switch power to the lighter socket only when the ignition is in accessory, or run. Plus since the radio switched input is under the accessory delay circuit the socket will remain powered until a door is opened or the accessory delay times-out.

If you don't want it to work in accessory/acc delay and only when ignition is in run, you can do the same thing but have the relay switched by the ignition hot input to the rear defrost switch since it's right there.
 
thanks for the input guys..

as long as the drainage is minimal then I will sleep well at night.


Nice Mark dRock!
 
That happened to me a couple times. What I did was go to the junkyard and grab the little cap off a car that has auxiliary power outlets. If there isn't something plugged into it, just push the cover down, and no more blown fuses or struggling to pull the pennies out of the bottom of the socket.
 
mine keeps blowing fuses too :( back one works good, front one i click the lighter in and it blows, replaced the lighter and did it again, (the removable part of my lighter is from a town car, could this be doing this??
 
When I was about 12 years old, My cousin pushed the cigarette lighter in on my grandpas brand new Monte Carlo, She then pulled the lighter out and put it right onto the seat!!! It burnt a hole right through it! He was a little upset.

I had a dime fall into mine once & popped the fuse as well.
 
The lighter position is a poor design on the Gen 2's. Mine is always getting little pieces of paper and gum wrappers in it, that fall out of my ashtray.
 
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