Electrical question

[BazGF8]

Trip to Germany next week , would the cig lighter socket supply enough juice for a cb radio, sat nav and say a phone charger?

 

[seanie]

depends on the current consumption of the cb, cigarette lighter will have minimum 10A fuse phone charger and sat nav charger are probably 5V output at around 500mA to 1A each so should not be drawing more than 2 ish amps at worst case, all depends on CB.

Worst case would be both batteries completely dead.

 

[BazGF8]

depends on the current consumption of the cb, cigarette lighter will have minimum 10A fuse phone charger and sat nav charger are probably 5V output at around 500mA to 1A each so should not be drawing more than 2 ish amps at worst case, all depends on CB.

Worst case would be both batteries completely dead.

Cool I think cb draws 2amps on start up and then settles so total of 4amps should be ok

 

[GC8]

You will be grand if the outlet is rated for 10A max as the cb (provided it is standard) will draw 4A max when transmitting, I run the same in all of my cars with no issue and sometimes a huge cooler box with them.

 

[wagon dec]

it will be grand baz i usually have two walkie talkies on charge and a sat nav and phone charger when I go to the ring and mine is fine .I bought a triple socket and use that

 

[BazGF8]

Thanks lads got it all wired in this evening seems to be 100%