[DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter

[Julian Kift]

Does the cigarette lighter have power for the cigarette lighter? i.e. between the bottom pin that the lighter pushes onto and the body of the socket?

I have encountered on a number of occasions the electrical device power adapters do not make contact correctly within the older lighter sockets. Sometimes it's a simple jiggle fix other times a different power adapter.

Good luck
Julian

> From: cengles at cox.net
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:32:09 -0500
> Subject: [DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter
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>                  I thought I would bring up a new topic since the blossom
> may be off the rose of the Dipstick mystery.
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>                  During preparations for the Road to Phoenix, I  found that
> the cigarette lighter does not have power for the CB.   Using all of my
> remedial electrical skills and knowledge, I have power all the way to the
> connections to the lighter plug near the ashtray.   It would seem to me that
> the cigarette lighter socket is shot.    While I know that the Pantera
> electrical system is not the most robust, I don't recall hearing that the
> lighter sockets are particularly fragile.    I am going to hard wire a fix
> around the dead socket so I should have communications.    Has anyone else
> had their cigarette lighter go up in figurative "smoke"?
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>                              Curious, but still working on the Pantera,
> Chuck Engles
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