Cigarette lighter fuse

[poorpeet]

I want to trickle charge my battery via the cigarette lighter but it's not working ( the lighter that is)
I've had a look & all fuses seem ok but the handbook doesn't mention which fuse protects it.
Anyone know?

[greenv8s]

Can't help with the fuse, but mine (V8S) is only live with the ignition on, switch on and try again. If this works, the fuse is a red herring and you need to rewire the socket or find another point to connect the charger to.

[ATG]

FWIW the cigarette lighter on my 97 Chim is permanently on. I have a vague recollection that there might be an in-line fuse holder wired into the loom next to the cigarette lighter, but that could be complete toss. It's been at least a year since I had my hand inside the door and can't remember properly.

[shnozz]

ATG said:

FWIW the cigarette lighter on my 97 Chim is permanently on.

not much help but ditto that - hence the road angel has to be unplugged even if its parked somewhere safe and I dont need to remove it

[poorpeet]

Yeah, I'm sure the lighter worked with the ignition off when I got the thing.
Surely even TVR wouldn't have hidden the fuse inside the door; would they?

[wildego1]

ATG & SHNOZZ

The reason your ciggy lighter is permanently on is,
there are two wires going to it and they have been mixed up so the light stays on. Luckily I realised this before reassembly There may be a fuse as well on one of them, or maybe just a connector?

That's if my memory serves me right,which is more than a little unusual

[ATG]

should have been more clear ... the cigarette lighter socket is permanently live; the light around the socket is only on with the headlights

[wildego1]

ATG said:

the cigarette lighter socket is permanently live

Err...They all do that Sir, except for Poorpetes of course.

I may have it completely wrong, but... I thought that the act of pushing in the ciggy lighter made a circuit and heated the element, so really its just like a button (except that the element gives some resistance to the current, it therefore gets hot).
Or do you mean that the element heats without being pushed in? If so its a dodgy element (bit you light a fag with).

[Steve_T]

Yep have charged through mine before. It's permanently live.

Steve.