IPOD Charger/BMW Type Plug

[MCML]

This may have been covered before but I have not been here for a while and I could not find what I needed to know using Search. I have a two Powerlet Outlets on my FJR and they acccept BMW type plugs. All of the Ipod chargers I have found to date use regular cigarette lighter plugs and they place the electronics in a casing that surrounds their plugs making it impossible to merely cut-off the plug and wire on the BMW-style plug. I need a charger that is either designed to be hardwired from the getgo or, alternatively, a charger where the plug is just a plug and the electronics are downstream. All ideas appreciated. Thanks.

 

[bmwhd]

This may have been covered before but I have not been here for a while and I could not find what I needed to know using Search. I have a two Powerlet Outlets on my FJR and they acccept BMW type plugs. All of the Ipod chargers I have found to date use regular cigarette lighter plugs and they place the electronics in a casing that surrounds their plugs making it impossible to merely cut-off the plug and wire on the BMW-style plug. I need a charger that is either designed to be hardwired from the getgo or, alternatively, a charger where the plug is just a plug and the electronics are downstream. All ideas appreciated. Thanks.

Not ideal but I just built a 2' cord with a male BMW plug on one end and female cig-lighter on the other and run that into my tank bag.

 

[tcfjr]

Powerlet Products sells an adaptor: https://www.powerletproducts.com/products/cables.php

 

[slapnpop]

I stripped one of the belin cigarette lighter style for permanent install into the car. When you strip off the plastic cigarette lighter housing, your left with a circuit about the size of a postage stamp, 1/2" thick, with 12v leads which you can wire to a BMW style plug.

 

[MCML]

Good ideas, all three - buy a premade adapter, smash and rebuild the charger, make an adapter/extension. Thanks.

 

[Rogue]

Hey Joseph! How you doing? Long time no see!

 

[MCML]

Hi Rogue! Thanks for the welcome back. I am doing fine and look forward to catching up with you on a ride soon. Well, not catching up with you in the let's race sense but you know what I mean.

 

[slapnpop]

If you're going to be in Asheville any time soon, I'd be happy to mod your charger for you...

 

[HIGHLANDER]

If you're going to be in Asheville any time soon, I'd be happy to mod your charger for you...

Nice offer...but Ashville's a long way from LALA land !

 

[MCML]

Yes, it is far from L.A. but the "back story" (as they say in The Biz) might help. I was going to add that, without the history, riding to Asheville on a whim might sound crazy but, with the people on this board, it would not be that extraordinary. Anyway, my sister has a home in Asheville and I visit there once in a while. Slapnpop and his lady (if my memory is not faulty) met up with me and some of my family at a sushi restaruant in downtown Asheville a couple of years ago. Food and conversation were both excellent. You and Diane should head out that way sometime and maybe ride the Dragon. If you go let me know - you have a place to stay.

 

[jdog109socal]

Cut off plug a rewire with correct plug. :dntknw:

 

[Rogue]

Cut off plug a rewire with correct plug. :dntknw:

Nope,

It has the electronics in the plug.

Hi Rogue! Thanks for the welcome back. I am doing fine and look forward to catching up with you on a ride soon. Well, not catching up with you in the let's race sense but you know what I mean.

Cool!

 

[Bluestreek]

This may have been covered before but I have not been here for a while and I could not find what I needed to know using Search. I have a two Powerlet Outlets on my FJR and they acccept BMW type plugs. All of the Ipod chargers I have found to date use regular cigarette lighter plugs and they place the electronics in a casing that surrounds their plugs making it impossible to merely cut-off the plug and wire on the BMW-style plug. I need a charger that is either designed to be hardwired from the getgo or, alternatively, a charger where the plug is just a plug and the electronics are downstream. All ideas appreciated. Thanks.

The PAC-002 should do the trick

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