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 \\;does anyone know how many volts are in the cig lighter? Or how to run a wire from the battery and turn it into 5v for my siruis radio. I would rather run the wire from the battery for this. Or does just putting an in line 5v fuse in on the + side make it 5v?
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What I did was to use the original cigarette lighter plug 5V adaptor and modify the plug by soldering on two leads from inside the plug that I connected to the Aux Switch. I mounted the adaptor under the fairing with tie wraps to any existing wiring harness. Now I can turn off the radio with the Aux Switch on the fairing. If you take the original 5V adaptor apart you will see that it has voltage reduction circuitry and filters. By no means can you hook up 12V to the radio without this voltage reducer!!
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\\\\\\;does anyone know how many volts are in the cig lighter? Or how to run a wire from the battery and turn it into 5v for my siruis radio. I would rather run the wire from the battery for this. Or does just putting an in line 5v fuse in on the + side make it 5v?
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\\\\\\\\\\\\\\;does anyone know how many volts are in the cig lighter? Or how to run a wire from the battery and turn it into 5v for my siruis radio. I would rather run the wire from the battery for this. Or does just putting an in line 5v fuse in on the + side make it 5v?
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\;does anyone know how many volts are in the cig lighter? Or how to run a wire from the battery and turn it into 5v for my siruis radio. I would rather run the wire from the battery for this. Or does just putting an in line 5v fuse in on the + side make it 5v?
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OK now that is some good info right there, I am not even sure if I ned to make it switch from the faring I could just soilder it in line from the battery to the surius and it should work right?
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you need a DC to DC converter... \\; Very simple to make, you can do a google search to find the schematic to build. \\;
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My issue is that when I plug in my siruis plug into my lighter it doesn't work, so I am wondering if the cig lighter might be wired backwards, where the center is not hot. I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing if I had to use my lighter, I was trying to just wire it direct, I just want the radio to work. I no long need the cig lighter because I quite smoking 1 1/2 yrs ago!
