Talk:Cigar lighter receptacle
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There are many unsourced statements regarding how unusable/unreliable these power outlets are. The article should probably focus on what the adapter is, who uses is, how it works, that sort of thing. If there are safety or reliability issues, those should probably be addressed in a "criticism" section... and sourced! ---Ransom (--71.4.51.150 23:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC))
[edit] Lighting cigars
I'm not a cigar smoker. The article seems to imply that the unheated center of the lighter is designed to be ideal for lighting cigars. Is there some reason you don't want to ignite the center of the cigar? Or am I just reading this wrong? ike9898 15:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
- Far as I see, there's no need to light the center, so that was a convenient place to put the cold contact. Jim.henderson 15:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I would just like to add something about the current drawn from a ligther, I read in some post that I can't find at the moment, that it would draw somthing like 20-30A! This is wrong, a normal ligther socket is about 1.8-3.0 Ohms, a car, or boat battery is somewhere between 11-15V volts making the maximum current about 8A. I have measured this, and the normal nominal current from a 12V source was in my case 6A. Hope this is helpful for all of you people that wants to put a cigar ligther in something.
