Just go to Radio Shack and get a cig lighter socket from them. Have the
mechanic mount it under the panel on copilots side. I've had one for
years and I have a 3-1 splitter plugged in also. Right now I have the
GPS and satellite radio plugged in.




T. McQuinn wrote:

Thanks, Jim. I have been looking for something like this, though for a
different purpose. I hate the cigarette lighter outlet but I need it
for portable GPS power. If you so much as sneeze on the current setup
it may break the connection and interrupt the power. It's also butt ugly.

It does bring up a couple of questions for me.

1) How can I find out how much power the Jameco 151590 can handle. I
can't find anything in the POH that tells me how big of a circuit
breaker the cig. lighter is on, but I assume it's a whopper. (I
actually have the old cig. lighter somewhere and it looks like you could
light a cigar with it.)

2) Especially if I don't have to rewire to another (lower amperage)
breaker, this would be a trivial change, right? Nothing more than a
logbook entry from a cooperative A&E?

Tom


RST Engineering wrote:

If you have a cigarette lighter, the hole left after its removal just
exactly fits a 2.1mm power jack such as the Mouser #163-4302 or the
Jameco #151590. The mating power plugs are in the same general area
of the catalog. The mated pair costs about $2. "hobby shack" used to
carry them; I'm not sure if they still do.

Wire the power jack to the clock circuit. The clock uses a
fuse/breaker directly off the battery and does not go through the
gyros, master switch, or any of that. However, you have to limit the
current of the trickle charger to less than that fuse/breaker or it
will trip it instantly.

Jim