Recently had a new alternator installed. Never thought I'd have this problem again...

Was driving down rt 80 this morning while using the following things:
1. headlights
2. radar detector (cig lighter)
3. CD player
4. Defroster/heat


All of a sudden, everything on my center console in the dash (clock, radio, radar detector) all shut off. I turned off my headlights in an attempt to minimize the load on the alternator. Sure enough, after about 5 minutes, all the electronics came back on. Good as new.

What the hell happened?

 

you were abducted by aliens. that 5 minutes you thought you waited was actually a time warp in which they implanted a hidden flux capacitor in your left earlobe. lol i dont really know, sounds like a short somewhere?

 

Sounds like you tripped a circuit breaker.

 

BUMP. This ever happen to anyone here? How much power does the cigarette lighter consume?

 

that depends on what you have plugged in. lighting a cigarette draws way less current than charging an ipod, running some neon lights, or a radar detector. Shouldnt be more than 15A, but im not sure

 

How does your behind feel?


Thats happened to me as well... I dont know what it is but I'd like to find out