I read in !emc-pstc that Ken Javor <ken.ja...@emccompliance.com> wrote
(in <0h2n005m8hj...@mtaout04.icomcast.net>) about 'Current from Car 12V
cigarette lighter socket' on Wed, 18 Sep 2002:

>An excellent post.  Seems like a solution here would be for the newer 
>electrical outlet to be designed differently and not mate with the older
>male cigarette lighter insert, and then provide an adapter that would take
>the cigarette lighter insert to the new electrical outlet.  Then the 8 Amp
>limit could be relaxed for appliances with the new plug, and any old devices
>would still be taken care of.

And your next question, for $64 000, is, 'Why didn't SAE think of that?'
(;-)
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