[DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter

[CharlesMcCall]

Dr. Chuck - 
Shooting at straws, but I had lighter problems last year that were resolved
by the silliest of things...

I had power to the lighter, as when I pushed the lighter in, it got hot
(and, um, would burn your finger if you tested HOW hot with said finger....)

But electrical devices wouldn't work. GPS, phone charger, etc. 

Fast forward to the solution - the two wires connected to the socket were
reversed. Things that didn't care about polarity, like a lighter I guess,
worked just fine. 

Other things didn't. 

If your CB doesn't work but your lighter does, then you may be onto
something. Don't test the efficiency of the lighter with your finger. 

(CB's aren't like 8-tracks?)

Charles McCall
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323


-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Charles Engles
Sent: domingo, 15 de abril de 2012 17:32
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter

Dear Forum,

 

 

                 I thought I would bring up a new topic since the blossom
may be off the rose of the Dipstick mystery.

 

 

                 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"?

 

 

                             Curious, but still working on the Pantera,
Chuck Engles

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