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Re: Austin UK Adventures

For my TomTom I've fitted a cigar lighter socket on the seat support on the nearside, close to the battery of my 1929 fabric saloon. It's connected to the battery with an in-line fuse.
I use the standard TomTom cigar lighter adapter. Running on 6 volts it's fine and has been for about 6000 miles. The TomTom battery is 3.5 Volts and the 6 volt supply seems perfectly adequate.
It also charges Samsung Galaxy phones via a USB adapter with no problems. The phones are 3.5V too, USB standard is 5V, but I haven't measured it's output. My TomTom is ancient and can't do USB.

Re: Austin UK Adventures

I charge from 6v as well Russell.

I also have a 12v converter for my phone and camera etc.

Re: Austin UK Adventures

Tom toms can need 1.2 amps, if your motorcycle usb adaptor only does 1A then the Tomtom internal battery will be slowly discharging and eventually going flat usually at the most inconvenient time. As others have said a genuine Tomtom adaptor or a high power 2.1A cigarette lighter to usb adaptor can be cajoled into working at 6v.

We had the same problem last year travelling through Europe in a vintage car but usually it was my fault as I had knocked the lead out, but you are right, inevitably when entering a roundabout.

Location: Rokeby, Victoria, Australia

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No cajoling needed for me. It just worked and continues to work.

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I'm with Jim: everything I need works of a cigarette lighter socket at 6v. I don't smoke so the non-working lighter is irrelevant.

Location: Just north of Cambridge

Re: Austin UK Adventures

My TomTom would only need need 1.2A if plugged in with a very flat battery. It very soon charges up while in use. Once the initial charge is complete I imagine it will only draw milliamps while in use. On mine the battery lasts for several hours use on a full charge without being plugged in. The ARM 9 processor is very efficient, screen illumination is LED.

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thanks for your input guys, I will purchase a cigarette socket and hot wire it to the 6 volt battery. I have with me a tom tom cigarette lighter plug with usb female connection. I do believe that the motorcycle usb port is of sufficient amperage, but the operation seems dodgy. I'll let you know how it goes.
Seems a big day today we are now in the North York Moors National Park having travelled about 100 miles, I'm in the local pub and I believe they are speaking English but there's nowt I understand! cheers Russell

Location: back in the UK in Primrose, going to guildtown !

Re: Austin UK Adventures

We start to head north again on Friday Russell - see you there!

R