Phone Charger, How to Hardwire?

[TyCorr]

The spot on the back of the console in my lincoln ls is where I plug my car charger in and it stays on all the time. No battery trouble...left **** plugged in all day for days at a time and the car starts all the same...if you left a phone in the truck everynight to charge while you sleep it WONT drain your battery....

 

[TANK'S 250]

Cut plug wire...2 wires inside 1+ 1-...wire like anything else

:whs:
remember to put an inline fuse. 5 amp should be fine...that way you dont burn your truck to the ground.

That wont work if it has a circuit board in the tip....if he just cuts the end and wires it up....bye bye phone

 

[Jhaddox]

shouldnt be...its only a + and a - that plug into the cigarette lighter, just on a different way. and they constantly have power while you have the charger plugged in to the truck anyway. So in theory it should work just fine, UNLESS there is a regulator of some sort inside the actual plug itself that plugs into the cig. lighter.

That wont work if it has a circuit board in the tip....if he just cuts the end and wires it up....bye bye phone

Said that earlier Tank, in a sorta kinda way:thumbup:

If there is no board...cut the wires...if there is use the wires that feed the board and extend them with the board in line or find the resistance and then put a resistor in that will do the same thing

 

[QtrHorse]

No mobile phone charges off 12V directly. There will be something in the head (part that plugs into the hole) that regulates the power to around 5V. Do what a couple of others suggested and get a new female charging port/ lead that the charger tip will plug into and then hard wire that pc using a key on only hot wire under the dash.

 

[SSpeeDEMONSS]

i still dont see why you cant just add another 12v plug under/behind the dash somewhere and run the wire where you want and have it plugged in.

Garrett

 

[John@Outlaw_Diesel]

i still dont see why you cant just add another 12v plug under/behind the dash somewhere and run the wire where you want and have it plugged in.

Garrett

That's what I plan on doing.