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No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Steve Chesky 6-18-01  
I recently purhased a '92 Jayco Designer Series 27' Motorhome with a Ford 460 coach. The cigarette lighter sockets worked at first but now they are dead. Is there a fuse somewhere? Please help! Also when the sockets did work, I used one inverter in each socket and had some trouble with one TVs cutting out once in a while, even when cruising down the highway. Any ideas?
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Kent 6-18-01  
I recently purhased a '92 Jayco Designer Series 27' Motorhome with a Ford 460 coach. The cigarette lighter sockets worked at first but now they are dead. Is there a fuse somewhere? Please help! Also when the sockets did work, I used one inverter in each socket and had some trouble with one TVs cutting out once in a while, even when cruising down the highway. Any ideas?

The lighter sockets are fed from the battery at all times, they are not switched to converter output when the rig is connected to shore power. If you have a Magnetek converter, the lighter socket fuse(s) will be one of the three automotive fuses at the right front side of the converter fuse panel.
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Kent 6-18-01  
I recently purhased a '92 Jayco Designer Series 27' Motorhome with a Ford 460 coach. The cigarette lighter sockets worked at first but now they are dead. Is there a fuse somewhere? Please help! Also when the sockets did work, I used one inverter in each socket and had some trouble with one TVs cutting out once in a while, even when cruising down the highway. Any ideas?
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Kent 6-18-01  
I recently purhased a '92 Jayco Designer Series 27' Motorhome with a Ford 460 coach. The cigarette lighter sockets worked at first but now they are dead. Is there a fuse somewhere? Please help! Also when the sockets did work, I used one inverter in each socket and had some trouble with one TVs cutting out once in a while, even when cruising down the highway. Any ideas?
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Kent 6-18-01  
I recently purhased a '92 Jayco Designer Series 27' Motorhome with a Ford 460 coach. The cigarette lighter sockets worked at first but now they are dead. Is there a fuse somewhere? Please help! Also when the sockets did work, I used one inverter in each socket and had some trouble with one TVs cutting out once in a while, even when cruising down the highway. Any ideas?

The lighter sockets are fed from the battery at all times, they are not switched to converter output when the rig is connected to shore power. If you have a Magnetek converter, the lighter socket fuse(s) will be one of the three automotive fuses at the right front side of the converter fuse panel.
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Jon 6-23-01  
I recently had an inverter problem, it worked occasionally when pluged into the lighter socket. It would cut out when I used addtional loads, lights, fans, ect or sometimes just because? I ran a direct line from the battery to the inverter. I was still having problems. I replaced the line I ran with a 12 AWG line and it works great now. Consistant power for TV and Playstation, over 140 watts. Good luck!
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Jon 6-23-01  
I recently had an inverter problem, it worked occasionally when pluged into the lighter socket. It would cut out when I used addtional loads, lights, fans, ect or sometimes just because? I ran a direct line from the battery to the inverter. I was still having problems. I replaced the line I ran with a 12 AWG line and it works great now. Consistant power for TV and Playstation, over 140 watts. Good luck!
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Kent 6-23-01  
I recently had an inverter problem, it worked occasionally when pluged into the lighter socket. It would cut out when I used addtional loads, lights, fans, ect or sometimes just because? I ran a direct line from the battery to the inverter. I was still having problems. I replaced the line I ran with a 12 AWG line and it works great now. Consistant power for TV and Playstation, over 140 watts. Good luck!

Glad you got your problem solved. I'm just a little puzzled by why it took 12 gauge wire to carry around only 12 amps in order to correct the problem
Re: No Power to Cigarette Lighter Sockets Kent 6-23-01  
I recently had an inverter problem, it worked occasionally when pluged into the lighter socket. It would cut out when I used addtional loads, lights, fans, ect or sometimes just because? I ran a direct line from the battery to the inverter. I was still having problems. I replaced the line I ran with a 12 AWG line and it works great now. Consistant power for TV and Playstation, over 140 watts. Good luck!

Glad you got your problem solved. I'm just a little puzzled by why it took 12 gauge wire to carry around only 12 amps in order to correct the problem
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