Help! Car cigarette lighter/power problem
- Thread starter Robert Maxwell
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By all means, you're welcome to buy me a new car. 
"Live" and "Ground" is another way to describe the polarity, ya know. Remember this is a DC circuit, not an AC circuit.
2. The circuit is always hot, so I have to pull the fuse whenever I'm going to leave the car to sit for a while. I imagine the drain on an FM transmitter is quite minuscule, but I don't want to take any chances. I intend to rewire the fuse at the box so that it's only activated by ignition/ACC, although I'm not sure what all is involved in that. If anyone has any advice on this, I'd appreciate it.
While ^that sounds like 'the right way' to do it you could just put in an on/off switch (or two as the case might be).
2. The circuit is always hot, so I have to pull the fuse whenever I'm going to leave the car to sit for a while. I imagine the drain on an FM transmitter is quite minuscule, but I don't want to take any chances. I intend to rewire the fuse at the box so that it's only activated by ignition/ACC, although I'm not sure what all is involved in that. If anyone has any advice on this, I'd appreciate it.
While ^that sounds like 'the right way' to do it you could just put in an on/off switch (or two as the case might be).
That did occur to me, but knowing me I'll just forget to flip the damn switch when I get out of the car.
As long as you didn't turn into a salamander...
[Robert Maxwell]^Know what that is about! -I had to install an automated off switch on the 'keep the coffee hot' plate in my kitchen 
Nah, nothing like that happened, although every time I reached 88 miles an hour I seemed to lose about twenty minutes.
