[ltp] car and airplance adapter

[Eben King]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, James Knott wrote:

> Incidentally, my car (2002 Taurus) has both an accessory socket and a 
> lighter.  According to the manual, I'm not supposed to use the lighter 
> outlet for anything else.  I wonder what the difference is?  Perhaps 
> fuse or circuit breaker rating?

Legalese for "if we call this a lighter socket, we could get in hot water
due to having multiple lighter sockets in the car, so it's a 'utility
outlet'.

Besides, it's fused.  If you use a cigarette lighter in it and it can't
handle the current, if the fuse is correctly sized the worst that'll 
happen is it'll blow the fuse.

Automotive cigarette lighter sockets deliver a pathetically low power
anyhow -- 120W (a reading lamp) IIRC.  Hope you don't want to power 
anything substantial from there.

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