bobs77vet

why do you suppose a working cigarette lighter wont work with a newer trickle charger? this would so you could back feed the battery to keep it charged. this is the kind of charger that is idiot proof and the leads don't energize unless it sees a circuit? do you suppose their are diodes some where in the ciragette lighter circuit?

ironranger

What type of trickle charger do you have. I have a CTEK 3300 and with the use of the cigarette lighter adaptor I have been running it thru the cigarette lighter for the past 5 years. Whenever I don't anticipate using the car during the next week, I plug it into the cigarette lighter. No issues!
Many on this forum use the cigarette lighter as well.

bobs77vet

thanks guys i will look it over again.

bobs77vet

so after looking at it more closely the cigarette lighter portion was from a solar panel charger that i thought looked similar i guess the two were not interchangable. the probes must not have made contact. i will actually test it later tonight

mrlmd

Is the cigarette lighter and Aux socket always "ON", or does the ignition switch have to be on to energize or connect them?

bobs77vet

well turns out the cigarette lighter male probe must have an open circuit on the positive side

UM Rebel

I have used Harbor Freight el cheapo trickle charger via cig lighter many times. No problems.

UM Rebel

Sometimes I plug AC power inverter into console Acc connector and trickle charger into inverter then charger into cig lighter.

az57chevy

Check your adapter, the end is a fuse actually. You may have been blown the fuse at some point.

mrlmd

Thanks, but I didn't see the message in the tiny box at the top of the diagram.

The Rabbi

That's so strange that you can charge the battery using that battery.

mrlmd

"Sometimes I plug AC power inverter into console Acc connector and trickle charger into inverter then charger into cig lighter.'

"That's so strange that you can charge the battery using that battery."


What are you guys talking about?
You think you are getting free electricity? That cannot work, you are draining the battery down to power the inverter (very inefficient) creating 110VAC then trying to get 12V out of that to charge the battery? Are you serious? Or was that a joke? At least one member fell for it.

Clancy209

Seems to me my you are charging and discharging at the same rate

grampi50

That's what you're getting from this too? I don't understand how you can trickle charge a battery with itself. That doesn't make any sense...