Not being a particular guru in the way of electrics, would this lot run okay off a normal ciggarette lighter socket in a truck or do i need something else to change voltage and things ■■?
The main things i have to run are my sat nav, plus the other above items and charging of my laptop and phone as and when, obviously they wont all be running at the same time.
The answer to your question depends on whether your truck has a 12v socket or not.
If it does you can plug them in no problem, if it only has a 24v socket then you’d need to buy a voltage dropper to operate 12v appliances.
Be careful with plugging the kettle into a cigarette socket, a lot of these kettles have quite a high current draw (15+ amps) and many cigarette sockets are only rated for 10 amp max. Options are to fit a higher rated socket and fuse in the truck, or if you have a Hella socket in there, fit a Hella plug to the kettle as these often have a higher rating than standard cigarette sockets.
Not too sure how well a 12v inverter would work through a voltage dropper either? Personally I’d have thought you’d be better off buying a 24v one.
merc0447:
Somebody got halfords vouchers for chrimbo
lol, somebody got made redundant for xmas so i am just enjoying a few quid for bits and pieces
AJF3011:
The answer to your question depends on whether your truck has a 12v socket or not.
If it does you can plug them in no problem, if it only has a 24v socket then you’d need to buy a voltage dropper to operate 12v appliances.
Be careful with plugging the kettle into a cigarette socket, a lot of these kettles have quite a high current draw (15+ amps) and many cigarette sockets are only rated for 10 amp max. Options are to fit a higher rated socket and fuse in the truck, or if you have a Hella socket in there, fit a Hella plug to the kettle as these often have a higher rating than standard cigarette sockets.
Not too sure how well a 12v inverter would work through a voltage dropper either? Personally I’d have thought you’d be better off buying a 24v one.
As for the kettle problem I have a stove and a metal kettle
merc0447:
Somebody got halfords vouchers for chrimbo
lol, somebody got made redundant for xmas so i am just enjoying a few quid for bits and pieces
AJF3011:
The answer to your question depends on whether your truck has a 12v socket or not.
If it does you can plug them in no problem, if it only has a 24v socket then you’d need to buy a voltage dropper to operate 12v appliances.
Be careful with plugging the kettle into a cigarette socket, a lot of these kettles have quite a high current draw (15+ amps) and many cigarette sockets are only rated for 10 amp max. Options are to fit a higher rated socket and fuse in the truck, or if you have a Hella socket in there, fit a Hella plug to the kettle as these often have a higher rating than standard cigarette sockets.
Not too sure how well a 12v inverter would work through a voltage dropper either? Personally I’d have thought you’d be better off buying a 24v one.
As for the kettle problem I have a stove and a metal kettle
In my limited experience all truck cigar lighter sockets ive ever come across are 24v. I have many burned out phone chargers to attest to this. Go down the Hella route to play it safe. At least they’re labelled with the voltage normally.
I would never ever run a kettle off the standard 24volt socket in your cab… The cabling isn’t heavy duty enough to take the ampage a kettle requires… It will almost certainly burn out the wires behind the dash and may even cause a fire… If u want to run a kettle then I’d invest in getting a socket installed with heavy duty cabling especially for that job…
First thing, watts is volts X amps so if you got a 500 watt 24 volt kettle you are going to draw 20 amps but if you got a 500 watt 12 volt kettle you going to draw 40 amps,No ■■■ lighter socket or power point is going to carry that for very long.And if you are going to use an inverter then be ready for a few jump starts in a morning!
Typical draw currents are phone charger half an amp,computer 2 to 5 amps,TV 10 to 12 amps,Fridge 8 amps,kettle 15 to 20 amps (these are all at 24v if you are using 12v accesories double the current draw)
Best way is to draw direct off the batteries but put a 30 amp fuse as near to the positive pole of the battery as you can so if you do short anything out you dont set the truck afire.And disconnect the leads as soon as your finished.Use thickish wire eg 2 or 3 mm2 twin core as the wiring in the cab harnesses are only good for carrying very small currents or digital trigger signals.
When you have all the lights on on a truck and trailer including head lights your only drawing at max 15 amps so you can see how much these “accesories” load the batteries.
coreysboys:
In my limited experience all truck cigar lighter sockets ive ever come across are 24v. I have many burned out phone chargers to attest to this. Go down the Hella route to play it safe. At least they’re labelled with the voltage normally.
EH??
Sounds like there’s something else wrong there matey, never burnt out a phone charger on a 24v socket in my professional driving life - 13yrs in April.
You get 12v and 24v sockets, most 12v sockets either only run with the ignition on or have a seperate switch. They run off a built in dropper but are of very limited amps.
12v stuff for a truck driver is just the wrong choice on so many levels.
All my stuff is 12/24V. I only use the 12v socket for my Ice Device. Anything else runs off the 24V sockets, i have a three ■■■ lighter socket/2 USB multi adaptor on a long lead. Plug that into the 24V and it runs the sat nav and phone charger if I need it.
