marksmith
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- Jun 24, 2013
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- Since 2008. Owned since July 2013.
Hi all,
Our Ducato has two cigar lighter sockets in the cab. Found some USB chargers on eBay for less than £5 delivered and it turns out they fit perfectly into the cigar lighter hole - so now we have a cigar lighter socket and two USB sockets.
The panel is a complete *&^$ to remove, but once you're in there, the connector on the back of the original socket has three pins - ground, switched live and lighting. If you pull the terminals out and swap around the live and lighting pins, it fits straight onto the back of the USB charger - no soldering or rewiring required. Didn't take any photos, sorry, but it's dead easy.
Here's the charger I bought:
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Word of warning, though. Although the sockets say 2.1 and 1A, in fact they don't charge that fast for me. I don't know why - I've never got my Samsung phone or tablet to fast charge with anything other than the original Samsung charger. Using any other charger they seem to default to the basic 0.5A charging. Still, better than an adapter which falls out all the time. After a hunt on t'internet I suspect maybe Apple products would fast-charge, but anyway our Samsung ones don't.
-Mark
Our Ducato has two cigar lighter sockets in the cab. Found some USB chargers on eBay for less than £5 delivered and it turns out they fit perfectly into the cigar lighter hole - so now we have a cigar lighter socket and two USB sockets.
The panel is a complete *&^$ to remove, but once you're in there, the connector on the back of the original socket has three pins - ground, switched live and lighting. If you pull the terminals out and swap around the live and lighting pins, it fits straight onto the back of the USB charger - no soldering or rewiring required. Didn't take any photos, sorry, but it's dead easy.
Here's the charger I bought:
Broken Link Removed
Word of warning, though. Although the sockets say 2.1 and 1A, in fact they don't charge that fast for me. I don't know why - I've never got my Samsung phone or tablet to fast charge with anything other than the original Samsung charger. Using any other charger they seem to default to the basic 0.5A charging. Still, better than an adapter which falls out all the time. After a hunt on t'internet I suspect maybe Apple products would fast-charge, but anyway our Samsung ones don't.
-Mark