Low voltage living Energie

Car socket 12 volt


What is a car socket

A lot of automobiles and other vehicles and boats, car van, campers have at least one world-standard type of car power socket mostly on the dashboard.

It is possible to connect a special designed cigarette lighter to a car socket. WARNING, Do not use this type of cigarette lighter in car socket extension cords, because most they can not handle the heat.

Other names socket

Other names for a car socket is: Car adapter, Cigarette lighter socket, Cigar lighter receptacle, DC power connector, DC OUTLET car OUTLET


What to connect

what can you connect to this socket:

Chargers for, laptop computers, mobile phones, PDAs, GPS, Digital audio and video players, Electric razors, portable spotlights, thermoelectric coolers or heaters. DC to AC inverter

Other names for plugs

How to make a car Cigar Lighter Socket female

Why

With this system there will less mistake about the electric plus and minus polarity.

There is a lot of electrical equipment that fits in this kind of socket.

This socket is a world standard DC 12 volt socket.

How

cut tinplate

Take some tin plate and copper wire The sizes are in mm

cut copper wire


fold tinplate double around copper wire
Tin plate and copper wire



curve tinplate

Curve and roll the cylinder into the right shape.

rolling the cylinder
Rolling the edge


soldering the tinplate and copper wire

Soldering the edges


wooden insulator

Make this from beech or pine wood.


tinplate ring and plastic ring

Assemble


assemble




soldering the plus wire
wire, beechwood, plastic, tinplate

Soldering the plus

make sure you solder the plus in the middle and the minus on the outside. Find the mark on the electric plus wire. a lot of wire is marked in diferent ways.

Mark on the plus wire, you can find more information Low_voltage_connection_basics



soldering the tinplate on the minus wire

soldering the tinplate and minus wire


hammer tinplate and beech wood

Hammer with small nails

hammer NOT through wire

Be careful you do not hammer the nail through electric wire


car Cigar Lighter Socket female

Cigar Lighter Socket female is finished

make watertight with rubber



Car cigarette lighter plug dimensions

How to make a car Cigar Lighter plug male

Coming soon link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_cigarette_lighter


You can connect the car Cigar Lighter female socket to the :


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