{"id":6998,"key":"Car_socket_12_volt","title":"Car socket 12 volt","latest":{"id":1208479,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T00:13:58Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Copyedit notice}}\n\n[[File:Car Cigar Lighter Socket female .jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Project data\n| location = Amsterdam\n}}\n\n{{Device data}}\n\n[[File:Living Energie.PNG|thumb]]\n\nMany different types of vehicles, including boats, cars, vans, and campers have a world-standard power socket on the dashboard.\n\nIt is possible to connect a specially designed cigarette lighter to a car socket. WARNING: Do not use this type of cigarette lighter for car socket extension cords, because most cords cannot handle the heat.\n\n== Other names for the car socket ==\n\nOther names for car sockets include car adapter, cigarette lighter socket, cigar lighter receptacle, DC power connector, DC outlet, and car outlet.\n\n== What to connect ==\n\nWhat can you connect to this socket?\n\nYou can connect chargers to laptop computers, mobile phones, PDAs, GPS devices, digital audio and video players, electric razors, portable spotlights, thermoelectric coolers or heaters. DC to AC inverter [Au query: DC to AC inverters are part of the list?]\n\n== How to make a car Cigar Lighter Socket female ==\n\n=== Why? ===\n\nWith this system there will be fewer mistakes about the electric plus and minus polarity.\n\nMany different types of electrical equipment can fit in this kind of socket.\n\nThis socket is a world standard DC 12 volt socket.\n\n=== How? ===\n\n{{Step\n| number = 1\n| text = Take some tin plate and copper wire as in the figures. The sizes are in millimeters.\n| image = Cut tinplate.PNG\n| image2 = Cut copper wire.PNG\n| image3 = Fold tinplate double rond copper wire.PNG\n| image4 = Tin plate and copper wire .jpg\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 2\n| text = Curve and roll the cylinder into the right shape.\n| image = Curve tinplate.PNG\n| image2 = Rolling the erylind.jpg\n| image3 = Rolling the edge.jpg\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 3\n| text = Solder the edges of the cylinder.\n| image = Solding the tinplate and copper wire.PNG\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 4\n| text = Make this from beech or pine wood.\n| image = Wooden insulator.PNG\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 5\n| title = Assemble\n| image = Tinplate ring and plastic ring.PNG\n| image2 = Assemble.jpg\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 6\n| title = Soldering the plug\n| text = Note: make sure you solder the plus in the middle and the minus on the outside. Find the plus indication mark on the electric plus wire. Wire is marked in different ways. You can find more information about marks on the plus wire at this link: See [[Low voltage connection basics]]\n| image = Solding the plus wire.PNG\n| image2 = Wire beechwood plastic tinplate .jpg\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 7\n| text = Solder the tinplate and minus wire\n| image = Solding the tinplate and minus wire.PNG\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 8\n| text = Hammer with small nails\n| image = Hammer tinplate and beech wood.PNG\n| image2 = Hamer NOT through wire.PNG\n| caption2 = Be careful you do not hammer the nail through electric wire\n}}\n\n{{Step\n| number = 9\n| text = Cigar Lighter Socket female is finished!\n| image = Car Cigar Lighter Socket female .jpg\n| image2 = Make watertight with rubber.PNG\n| image3 = Car cigarette lighter plug dimension.PNG\n}}\n\n== How to make a car Cigar Lighter plug male ==\n\nComing soon link: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_cigarette_lighter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_cigarette_lighter]\n\nYou can connect the car Cigar Lighter female socket to the :\n\n* [[Low voltage power supply]]\n* 12 volt [[Battery]] power supply\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = car socket, 12 volt, female, car adapter, cigarette lighter socket, cigar lighter receptacle, DC power connector, DC outlet, car outlet\n| authors = User:Stef Breukel\n| published = 2007\n}}\n\n[[Category:How tos]]\n[[Category:Electricity]]"}