85Santana3
Active Member
Good day
I tried installing and powering up (from car's electrical system) an old camplight which works with 4 AA batteries in back of my landy and to my surprise it did not work. My know-it-all neighbour who was passing by gave me a wiseman to village idiot look and mumbled something about AC and DC currents.
I did a small online search and apparently car is DC. My camplight is obviously DC and 6V. So it should have worked, maybe at most extra juice would burn the lamps, (that did not happen it still works with batteries) but they should be compatible. Yet it did not work.
Any idea why?
tx in advance
I tried installing and powering up (from car's electrical system) an old camplight which works with 4 AA batteries in back of my landy and to my surprise it did not work. My know-it-all neighbour who was passing by gave me a wiseman to village idiot look and mumbled something about AC and DC currents.
I did a small online search and apparently car is DC. My camplight is obviously DC and 6V. So it should have worked, maybe at most extra juice would burn the lamps, (that did not happen it still works with batteries) but they should be compatible. Yet it did not work.
Any idea why?
tx in advance