There are many unsourced statements regarding how unusable/unreliable these power outlets are. The article should probably focus on what the adapter is, who uses is, how it works, that sort of thing. If there are safety or reliability issues, those should probably be addressed in a "criticism" section... and sourced! ---Ransom (--71.4.51.150 23:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC))
I'm not a cigar smoker. The article seems to imply that the unheated center of the lighter is designed to be ideal for lighting cigars. Is there some reason you don't want to ignite the center of the cigar? Or am I just reading this wrong? ike9898 15:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I would just like to add something about the current drawn from a ligther, I read in some post that I can't find at the moment, that it would draw somthing like 20-30A! This is wrong, a normal ligther socket is about 1.8-3.0 Ohms, a car, or boat battery is somewhere between 11-15V volts making the maximum current about 8A. I have measured this, and the normal nominal current from a 12V source was in my case 6A. Hope this is helpful for all of you people that wants to put a cigar ligther in something.
I believe it is common knowledge (for technicians) that for any connector the easiest part to get to is ground, and the most difficult part to get to is the wiring. For a cigarette lighter receptable that means:
On all modern cars minus is ground, and the wiring is positive, but on some older cars it is the other way around.
I would like to add this to the article, but I can't find any sources for this.
The best I found is this forum post and answer, but I guess that is not good enough as a source?
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/45293/what-is-the-polarity-of-a-car-cigarette-lighter-adapter
I probably won't remember to go back and check up on this, so I hope someone more into Wikipedia, can add this information to the article.
80.72.152.166 (talk) 07:52, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
These three statements appear to contradict each other:
Note that the Morris patent was for automotive use. It seems to me the Casco claim can't be true, but the cited source is down right now so I can't check. Note that it's a self-published source and probably not acceptable. Kendall-K1 (talk) 17:29, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Here's what looks like a good source: [1] Kendall-K1 (talk) 17:34, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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One thing I learned about these (upon repairing my own) that I didn't see mentioned is that the cigarette receptacle (vs DC outlet) sometimes has a thermal fuse embedded to ensure a malfunctioning lighter doesn't set your dashboard on fire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.63.44.148 (talk) 20:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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Moved to Automobile auxiliary power outlet. See general agreement below that this is the highest and best title for this article. Kudos to editors for your input, and Happy Publishing! (nac by page mover) Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 00:43, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Auxiliary car power outlet → Cigarette lighter receptacle – Revert undiscussed move to a poor title; the "car" is not the auxiliary here. Discussion will come up with a better name. Wtshymanski (talk) 22:45, 20 July 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. — Newslinger talk 14:43, 30 July 2019 (UTC)