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Holbay120
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15 Apr 2010 : 00:12:49
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This may be of interest to fastback owners, after the cars where fitted with a steering lock the original place where the ignition barrel was was just fitted with a blanked plate , now times have moved on and these days we have sat nav, mobile phones etc and it just so happens that if you buy one of the cigarette lighters with a Sunbeam badge on e-bay for around a tenner and pop out the blanking plate the cigarette lighter is a perfect fit which means that you can connect your sat nav or phone (with bluetooth earpiece of course because us SROC members are safety concious responsible citizens!!)without having a wire from the cigarette socket in the centre consule all the way up to the dashboard getting in the way of the gear stick, also if you (like me) are a smoker it's handier than the one in the centre consul and finaly it looks like it should be there, much nicer than a blanking plate adding one more knob to the already wonderful dashboard,if I could figure out how to upload a picture of mine I would and you would see what I mean with the Sunbeam badge being the icing on the cake.
Well I said when I knew how to upload some photo’s I would, as I said it looks like it should be there and much better than a blank plate and has practical uses,
The wiring was quite interesting, I wanted a 13 amp fuse for a 12v electric kettle so lets see that’s watts x amps = volts so a simple bit of algebra – 12v & 13 amps = 0.9 watts er ?? mmm, then there’s the wiring - lets see it’s old to connect to new so that’s brown to red and black to green and blue to er’ bits and pieces. Then I had a brainwave and called an auto electrician who came and sorted out the cigarette lighter and also fitted a little switch for the electric ariel and as I had done the spade work only charged me £25 and at least its done properly!
David McKenna |
Edited by - Holbay120 on 09 Oct 2010 12:08:28 |
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1922
United Kingdom
549 Posts |
Posted - 15 Apr 2010 : 15:27:08
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| I used mine for a switch for some intermittent wipers. But I like your idea better. |
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TurboZed
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 Apr 2010 : 18:50:25
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Originally posted by Holbay120
if I could figure out how to upload a picture of mine I would and you would see what I mean with the Sunbeam badge being the icing on the cake.
David McKenna
Upload the picture to photobucket or another photo hosting website, you then need to copy the image linking from that side (should look like this, [...IMG]http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q252/kaptainjimmyladd/large_brewster.jpg[/IMG...]) and then paste it in when you make a reply on here and the picture will display.
Regards,
Jim Gough
Looking for a fastback Rapier.... |
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1922
United Kingdom
549 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 11:26:09
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Watts = Volts x Amps 
So 12v at 13amps is 156 watts. That's a bit less than 4 headlights on full beam. |
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Fastback Dashboard/Gadgets
