[DeTomaso] Riddle me this, electrical people

[Thomas Tornblom]

Check that the center of the socket is positive polarity, that's the only thing I can think of.

Cheers, Thomas

2 apr 2011 kl. 21:27 skrev Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>:

> Or even people with a slightly scientific mind.
> 
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> 
> My phone charger doesn't charge the phone in my Pantera. It's an official
> Motorola charger, it works just fine in other cars but not in the Pantera. 
> 
> 
> 
> I thought it might possibly be that the shape of the cigar lighter socket in
> the Pantera was such that the charger didn't make contact, as the cigar
> lighter works (I burned my finger testing that out.)
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway, I bought a 12-volt y-adapter with a built in light that shows if it
> is plugged in. 
> 
> 
> 
> I plug the adapter into the lighter of the Pantera and the light lights up,
> indicating that it has juice. I plug the charger into the adapter and it
> doesn't light up, indicating that it isn't charging. 
> 
> 
> 
> How can an adapter have current, but the charger plugged into it not? The
> charger works just fine in my daily driver or any one of the rental cars
> that I use on a weeky basis. The only car it doesn't work in is the Pantera.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Summary - the cigar lighter works, and will light cigars if one wishes. 
> 
> The y-adapter lights up, indicating that it is receiving current. 
> 
> 
> 
> The phone charger doesn't light up, either plugging it directly into the
> socket, or plugging it into the adapter, even though the adapter light is
> lit. 
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> 
> Any idea what gives?
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> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Charles McCall
> 
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
> 
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