Yes, well, necessity is the mother of invention!
Actually what I'd like to see first, and if had contacts in the car
industry I'd try to turn it into a product...
My cell phone charger has a big cigarette-lighter adapter.
My son's game boy has a big cigarette-lighter adapter.
My portable <insert product here> has a big cigarette-lighter adapter.
Why can't we do away with the cigarette lighter adapters and have some
shareable 12-volt power source INSIDE the vehicle with small convenient
plugs (not these monster adapters) where you can have more than one at a
time (for safety, they would be limited to a certain number of amps - large
draw items would still require the full adapter)? And it wouldn't get
accidentally pulled out of the socket, and...
- Tab
At 12:06 PM 3/16/04, Paul M. wrote:
>--- Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com> wrote:
> > It'd be nice to rig up cables permanently
> > somehow so they run from
> > the battery to the front compartment with some kind
> > of terminal there.
>
>Yeah! What a good idea! I wonder why automakers
>don't get together and come up with some kind of
>"standardized" plug for jump starting. Something that
>is always grounded correctly, always located similarly
>(like on both sides of the front bumper, with a cover
>that hid them when not in use), with a red plug and a
>black plug, and then jumper cables could be made with
>the universal ends that just mated right up to the
>standardized plug.
>
>A 7500 sq. ft. home less than a mile away from my
>house burned to the ground last week because some guy
>was jump starting his BMW and apparently the battery
>blew up, catching a big can of fuel and then
>eventually getting the whole blasted house.
>
>=====
>Paul Misencik - 1971 MGB - www.sopwithracing.com
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