Battery charging C172

Yeah, that's not very different from what I've done for the last few
years. I just can't get a decent connection that way. Sometimes it's
the connection between the three way and the cig. lighter jack,
sometimes it's the connection into the 3 way. And mine looks like
something Jed Clampett rigged up. My hope is to install a new jack and
then solder everything up to where a single, reliable plug goes into it.

I would be interested to know the brand of 3-1 splitter that you use?
I'm on my second or third one and they've all been poor quality.

Tom

Newps wrote:
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