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#92464 07/26/2005 5:32 AM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 153 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 153 | it looks like i've bought and installed a 12v lighter for my 53 gmc with a 6v system and it works but won't get hot enough to light a cigarette. maybe some electrical engineering such as a resistor in parallel or shortening the filament or whatever you call the part in the lighter that gets hot would work?
thanks for any and all suggestions, short of replacing it with a 6v lighter and throwing this one away :-)
Overland Blue, 1953 GMC 1/2T, 100-22, 228/1bbl, 4sp/4.10 6v, shortbed/fender side/5-window.
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#92465 07/26/2005 5:43 AM | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | short of throwing it away and getting a 6v element, you could change yer whole truck over to 12v, then you could use the lighter socket to power somea those new age things like a cell phone, but it'd prolly be cheapest by far to just quit smokin!!  Bill | | |
#92466 07/26/2005 12:08 PM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 196 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 196 | Yeah, you should quit smoking. They DO make voltage multipliers but that'd be much more work than just quitting and much more expensive than just buying the right lighter.
66 C10 FS/LB 292/4-spd manual (I also enjoy Hang Gliding)
I'm too sexy for my hair, that's why it isn't there
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#92467 07/26/2005 10:08 PM | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 582 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 582 | Hee, hee! Wait a long time for it to warm up! | | |
#92468 07/27/2005 6:09 AM | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 988 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 988 | Or start buying 6 volt cigeretes! LOL
Brian Moore
1949 3100 5 window Deluxe
"Today is better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow"
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#92469 07/27/2005 3:22 PM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 19 | ----------------------------------------
"Or start buying 6 volt cigeretes! LOL"
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Now this is why I have started reading these postings everyday. There is always something new to learn....LOL
Ron
1950 Chevrolet 2 door Fleetline w/Power Glide
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#92470 07/29/2005 3:54 AM | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 988 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 988 | Ron if you are looking for the 6 volt cigeretes they are right next to the meteric cresent wrenches, one isle past all the Johnson Rods!
Brian Moore
1949 3100 5 window Deluxe
"Today is better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow"
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#92471 08/02/2005 10:11 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 | Just keep using the 12 volt lighter, and while you're waiting for it to get hot enough to light up, you'll get over the habit! Think about how long that one smoke will last while you're waiting for the lighter to work!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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#92472 08/02/2005 10:33 PM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 | old_blue, I don't know if you smoke or not, I really don't care and I won't make a cute remark like the others have.
I got one of those 12 volt lighters also. What I did was get a six volt lighter from an old junker and replaced the knob with the one from the 12 volt(which worked just fine). I now have a 6 volt lighter that works and has a knob that matches the other knobs.
I don't smoke but I do have a 6 volt lighter that works. | | |
#92473 08/04/2005 3:59 PM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 153 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 153 | thanks ad_pickup. that's what i'll do 2. FTR, i don't smoke either, but it came with the truck so i'm making sure everything works that is supposed to work. also, it works to charge my cell phone!
thanks again to all
tony
Overland Blue, 1953 GMC 1/2T, 100-22, 228/1bbl, 4sp/4.10 6v, shortbed/fender side/5-window.
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#92474 08/04/2005 5:52 PM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | Couldn't you just put a voltage booster on it?
Or does it use too many amps? | | |
#92475 08/07/2005 6:48 AM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 153 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 153 | brendanm720, dunno. don't know how many amps the booster can supply or how many the lighter needs. maybe a good solution ifen i can't find a 6v unit. thought about moding the winding by shortening it a bit, but that doesn't seem to be that easy to do either. oh well, on to bigger and better things like rear axle seals and truck bed wood kits.
tony
Overland Blue, 1953 GMC 1/2T, 100-22, 228/1bbl, 4sp/4.10 6v, shortbed/fender side/5-window.
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#92476 08/07/2005 7:38 AM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 | I don't see how changing the 12 volt element for a six volt element will do anything for charging cell phones, all of which require 12 volts.
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#92477 08/16/2005 3:48 AM | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 23 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 23 |
Making chicken salad out of chicken sh!t.
1955 Ford F100
1954 GMC
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