Just want to make sure I understand this correctly - you can plug this into the cigarette lighter and don't need to connect to the battery?
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Yes you could sort of. Not all cigarette lighters are 'live' when you turn off your car. It seems to me it about 50-50 depending on the car brand and model.So if you cigarette lighter IS NOT 'live' when you turn off the car this this would not work.
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Gail, the cig lighter function is for maintaining a battery on another vehicle. I doubt you could charge a battery on a vehicle you're trying to charge. I'm using mine to keep my motorcycle battery charged but I do have the charger plugged into an electrical outlet...Not into the cig lighter...Hope this helps.
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Yes you could sort of. Not all cigarette lighters are 'live' when you turn off your car. It seems to me it about 50-50 depending on the car brand and model. So if you cigarette lighter IS NOT 'live' when you turn off the car this this would not work.
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There is no way to plug in to a lighter and I don't think the cord would reach the back of your car. You have to attach it to your battery.
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Seems to me you can charge it in your car using a voltage inverter plugged into your lighter.
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Hi Malcolm, as far as I know this device does need a cigarette lighter connection. I believe that's the only way it will work. I hope this helps. :-)
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If you buy the cigar lighter adapter from battery tender and place it on the dash or rear deck inside the car, that will work the way you want. You can just leave it hooked up all the time. If you use the supplied clamps it will almost certainly fall off the battery terminals while you drive. Not Good.
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no, plugs into your lighter port. unless your lighter port does not stay on if your is not running.
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No, it plugs into a USB port, so if you have one in your car or have a USB cigarette lighter adapter you can use it.
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Absolutely. If left plugged in, your battery will be discharged. Here's a tip: Attach a shoestring or a chain along with a clip, to the plug in wire of the seat warmer. Then.....after you plug in the seat warmer to your cig lighter, attach the clip to your ignition key ring. Then...when you shut off your ignition, that clip will remind you to pull the plug from your cig lighter. Capeesh?
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You can use batteries with a switch, but i would recomend using your car battery. The easiest way would be to connect them to your cigarette lighter, this way they turn on every time the car battery is on, and then if you want it is fairly easy to attach a switch.
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No, you have to turn it off. You don't need to unplug it from the cigarette lighter to turn it on/off, because it has a main control.
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Sure is, several ways you can do this basically i'd grab one of these http://goo.gl/s3luSY with this u can use cigarette lighter plug .. or cut the cig lighter plug part off, shore the wires and use either alligator clips or an extended piece of wire if necessary and connect directly to your battery just dont get the + and - wrong. Hope this helps somewhat. - Steve
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It needs to be wired up. It is designed to be connected directly to the battery but ypu could wire a cigarette lighter adapter to it.
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You have to connect the USB to a converter that fits into the cigarette lighter. The converter was in the box with mine, and they are readily available in stores for a few bucks.
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No. This is for your home. Or any where that a "cig lighter style outlet" is needed and not present. So lets say u have a car charger for ur cell phone. U could plug the cell charger into this device if it was plugged in say at home in the house.I use it for my portable xm radio that plugs into my boat/ car. Using this I can plug it in at home or anywhere else I travel for parties ect and dont have to find a car outlet.
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i do not recommend pluging into car lighter plug. the unit draws too much power. it comes with clips to hook directly on car battery terminals. they do come smaller and can be plugged into lighter but they have less power (watts). figure out hqw many watts you draw and add 20 percent more and buy a power inverter with that power draw. you can not draw more power than the inverter puts out or the power inverter will blow. these power inverters are great when power goes out. you can run 25 watt floresent bulb for over a day with them on a mid size charged car battery, or even a tv. you do not need to keep a generator running all the time. i have two car batterys charged all the time if power goes out. i also have portable solar pannels 12 volt to charge batterys. this is a hobby for me.
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This only plugs in to an auxiliary jack on both ends of the cable (i.e. Aux jack on stereo and headphone jack on cellphone/ipod). So no, it doesn't plug into a cigarette lighter. Maybe you're looking for a car charger...?
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Physically connect yes. Logically no. Concern would be the fuse amperage overload (in series) and if your ciggy lighter is always closed so your battery receives a charge when ignition is turned off. It looks good physically but logics meant it likely won't work out a DA boxette.