Magellan 730387 12v Cigarette Lighter Adapter Cable for the eXplorist Series

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• ASIN: B00076QAJM
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• Item model number: 730387
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Product Description

730387 MAGELLAN EXPLORIST 12V DC POWER CABLE

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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Requires USB cable in order to use this., April 9, 2006

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FOX (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magellan 730387 12v Cigarette Lighter Adapter Cable for the eXplorist Series (Electronics)

Looking at the photo of this item, I noticed the plug at the end of this car lighter charger is NOT the screw on contraption needed for my eXplorist 400, so I was hesitant to purchase it until I did further research and found out WHY the plug is different.

You still need the USB cable that came with the eXplorist and have to bring it in the car too!

The big AC plug detaches from the USB cable, and AHA! Now you have a jack that this car charger can plug into! Then you screw that cable onto your GPS unit as when you charge it via AC.

In other words... This charger does NOT plug into your GPS, it plugs into your GPS charger cable which attaches to your GPS.

But I don't want to take that cable in the car with me, because if it gets damaged or lost, then I can never charge the unit at all, not even at home with AC. So I was forced to find and purchase another USB cable assembly seperately, to keep in the car with this car lighter charger.

Magellan should have just put the screw on connector at the end of this car charger instead of the way they did it.

The car lighter charger has a nice coiled cord, but what good is it? You still have to have the long USB cable attached to it anyway!

But hopefully this will help everyone, that like me, was puzzled by the photo of the item and the connector that isn't going to fit anywhere in the eXplorist 400.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Magellan could have done better, July 19, 2006

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L. Haack (MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan 730387 12v Cigarette Lighter Adapter Cable for the eXplorist Series (Electronics)

The cord works just fine, but by the time you get the USB cord and the 12v cord together, there is a lot of cord. It would make more sense to have a cigarette adapter that pluged into the back of the unit the same way the USB cord does, that way there isn't a bunch of cord attached to the unit.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Crappy design, but functionally it works., June 25, 2007

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Corey Scott (Rocklin, California, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan 730387 12v Cigarette Lighter Adapter Cable for the eXplorist Series (Electronics)

MAgellan really needs to re-think the way they do the USB adapter and charger cords. As mentioned in previous reviews, you have to take the stupid USB cord with you in your car, if you want to use the car charger. So then you have the extra USB cord flopping around all over the place. I can live with the fact that the USB cord is an annoying screw-on thing (for water resistance blah blah), but why couldn't they make the car charger use the same adapter? Ok, because then you couldn't use both cables at the same time. But they should have the USB cable plug into the car charger cable, instead of vice versa, so that you can use the car charger without extra cabling all over the place.



Also, the cord's coil is quite stiff and tends to pull relatively hard on the GPS unit if your cigarette lighter doesn't happen to be within 18" of the GPS.



Other than that... It does indeed charge the battery just fine.