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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / June 2006Cigarette lighter querry
Is it difficult to bypass the ignition switch and have the cigarette lighter outlet hot all times? I use the lighter outlet for an Ipod and would like to have it hot regardless of the ignition switch position. Thanks... If you are handy and know the basic electric work, the radio memory (which is hot all the time) is around the vicinity. However, I have not tried that yet and I don't know what rating that wire is (that is, if it can handle the load without burning). The safest way is probably running a new wire to the fuse box. The job itself is not difficult but the position (working under dash) is not comfortable. I personally would rather work under the hood, or even under the car. > Is it difficult to bypass the ignition switch and have the cigarette > lighter outlet hot all times? I use the lighter outlet for an Ipod and > would like to have it hot regardless of the ignition switch position. > > Thanks... Yes it is possible... not too hard to do. What I would do is install a relay with fuse built in at the cigarette lighter and wire it to the radio hot. This way, when car is on... cigarette lighter work just as original... when car is offf, it runs off the radio circuit. > Yes it is possible... not too hard to do. What I would do is install a relay > with fuse built in at the cigarette lighter and wire it to the radio hot. > This way, when car is on... cigarette lighter work just as original... when > car is offf, it runs off the radio circuit. Thanks guys, good information from you both. I'm now 76 and not as flexible as I used to be. I wish an old friend from the 50's was around, he was 5'2", skinny as a rail and could easily fit under any dash of the cars from those days. He could do this job in a flash. I'll see what's available here to do such a job. No need to go under dash at all... it is all done at the cigarette lighter/radio area. Seventy six with an Ipod?! Cool! Rock on! > No need to go under dash at all... it is all done at the cigarette > lighter/radio area. > > Seventy six with an Ipod?! Cool! Rock on! Yeah, but WinXP is about to get the best of me. ;-) I've been using Win98SE so long it's growing roots that are showing through my monitor. :-D It's also laughable to think that I'm the oldest one in the gym we go to MWF! I'll check out crawling into the cig ashtray and see how that goes. :-P Nah... Windows XP is not all that hard... Everything is in a slightly different place. You should have jumped into XP long ago... this system is so stable and solid. Everything is so easy to install on XP when you buy new stuff. Windows 98 develops alzheimer too fast that I have to clean install it every 6 months to keep computer running fast. Plus it doesn't accomodate alot of new stuff on the market nowdays. >Nah... Windows XP is not all that hard... Everything is in a slightly >different place. You should have jumped into XP long ago... this system is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >6 months to keep computer running fast. Plus it doesn't accomodate alot of >new stuff on the market nowdays. Uh, yeah. I live way out in the country where broadband is not available. It's dial-up or else. In that enviroment XP and the various any-spy/virus/whatever ware things spend so much tim updating themselves that you only get to use the machine half the time. Without these XP sh.ts itself in a few months. Or less. Plus I've seen it corrupt its boot block more times tha I care to remember and no "fix mbr" doesn't. After 8 mos of this living hell I swiched back to W98 for machines that have to run Winblows and am slowly converting everything here to PC-BSD. I shouldda gone mac/osx ages ago, but I have a substantial amount of high performance PC hardware I can't quite give up on.  SignatureNeed Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net LOL... You are right on the updates that bogs down the dial up... you should simply turn off the Automatic Update in these cases for dial up. Antivirus or antispyware will also slow down the computer for softwares like McAfee (oooh... I hate these...) and Symantec which is a big software. Computer Associate software are much smaller and doesn't bog down the dial up as much the big boys above. You country boys needs to use the Hughes Satellite Broadband internet acess... DirecTV is the provider for these satellite broadband. Are you sure you don't have cable broadband? >You country boys needs to use the Hughes Satellite Broadband internet >acess... DirecTV is the provider for these satellite broadband. Are you sure >you don't have cable broadband? Dude, I'm an interent engineer and have been for 20 years. I can tell you the dB loss between here and the closest CO. I live 12 miles from the closest piece of cable and sat has too much of a latency to be of any use to me. Some jokers are doing wireless around here. If they do better than the last 3 packs of crooks that tried it might be an option. Until then it's 28.8. Serious. Stop snickering. It works. SignatureNeed Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net LOL... So why are you living in middle of nowhere? I'd rather put up with satellite letency than dial up. I had satellite in 2000... where you dial in for uplink and it transmit downward via satellite... it was better than nothing... even though at that time has too many hiccups as dial up will hang up on ya! I went from cable modem back to 56K until where I live hooked me up with cable again... talk about agony! You need digital T1 line... at least that can be done anywhere... but $800 a month for fractional 56K is definitely no bargain! Or you can do what towns in middle of nowhere are doing... town lease T1 and redistributed it via network hookup for the whole town... everyone pays part and is economical for everyone. >LOL... So why are you living in middle of nowhere? I'd rather put up with >satellite letency than dial up. I had satellite in 2000... where you dial in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >redistributed it via network hookup for the whole town... everyone pays part >and is economical for everyone. It's pretty here. REALLY pretty here. I have a river an waterfall in my back yard and not a small one. I'm a C programmer and spend most of my time in vi on a unic box via ssh, and 28.8 is about as fast as I can type. I don't download porn/movies/ music so high bandwidth is no big deal for me really. I am a 12 minute drive from broadband and can download, say BSD if I need to fairly quickly and make a CD or two. I have radio gear and an antenna tower, one day when there's somebody else to play with around here I'd get that going. I used it for a project in NYC and got to keep the hardware. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha. SignatureNeed Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net > Dude, I'm an interent engineer and have been for 20 years. ^^^^^^^^ Say, is that where they get you to "fix" the pricing on housing? ;-) > I can tell you the dB loss between here and the closest CO. I live 12 > miles from the closest piece of cable and sat has too much of a > latency to be of any use to me. Hm, really OT, but if you *are* able to access broadband 12 miles away, I'd try to setup my own point-to-point wireless link. Do you have LOS between your home and the other site? > Some jokers are doing wireless around here. If they do better than > the last 3 packs of crooks that tried it might be an option. It's really much harder to do good wide-area wireless coverage cheaply. > Until then it's 28.8. Serious. I hear ya. Dial-up at 14.4K MNP5 was a luxury back in the late '80s, and programs like vi and rtin worked great at those speeds. Actually even today, it is still possible to do light browsing at 28.8K. I just turn off the graphics and scripts loading. > Stop snickering. It works. You *did* say you have an antenna tower lying around doing nothing. http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html Also see: http://www.interline.pl/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1 >60 miles - with a little help from a 500mW boost. Cheers, WS Signaturechange to leews to mail There is a programme that claims to increase browsing speeds (even broadband!), by compressing images/graphics. In the UK it sells for about GBP 25 per year. It is called Onspeed: http://www.onspeed.com/en/index.php FAQs are here: http://www.onspeed.com/en/find_out_more.php It might help. I was interested in it but then did not pursue when I switched to broadband, where the speed is high enough for my needs without any further mods. DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- [...] > I hear ya. Dial-up at 14.4K MNP5 was a luxury back in the late '80s, and > programs like vi and rtin worked great at those speeds. Actually even > today, it is still possible to do light browsing at 28.8K. I just turn off > the graphics and scripts loading. [...] The problem is line of sight from here. It's a little but not very hilly here. Enouhugh such that I need a bunch of elevation maps to see hat I could do from here and I haven't got around to that yet. I have servers on fat pipe and can drop in to use dsl. I really don't need much more than that to do what I do. It's only a matter of time before broadband wireless reaches ubiquity, I'm not in any real hurry. SignatureNeed Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net > Is it difficult to bypass the ignition switch and have the cigarette > lighter outlet hot all times? I use the lighter outlet for an Ipod and > would like to have it hot regardless of the ignition switch position. I like it the way it is precisely for that reason. My iRiver with the great open source RockBox firmware has special settings for in car operation. It automatically goes on standby when the ignition is switched off and powers back up and resumes playing when the ignition is switched on again. I believe there's now even a Rockbox version for iSheep^H^H^H^H^H^HiPods ;) Ximinez SignatureOur three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/t1.html |
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