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Old 18th March 2016, 08:44 AM
mattylondon mattylondon is offline
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Originally Posted by Lee S View Post
I bought one of those years ago from Maplin and it plugs into the ciggie lighter. What's with the OBD plug on this? Why would you want to plug it into an OBD socket buried under the dash instead of the standard fag lighter on the dash? It doesn't even come with a fag lighter adapter... Am I missing something? Doesn't the battery charge via the fag lighter or is it because some cars turn the fag lighters off with the ignition?
I guess some cars may have a switched lighter socket. The spec for OBD2 port is a permanent 12v.
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