Adapter 7 Pole to Cigarette

Video Transcript for Draw-Tite 7 Pole Adapter Review

Hey guys, the Randy here at etrailer.com. You know customers often ask us how they can get 12 volt power at the back of their vehicle and there are a lot of different ways to do that. What we're looking at today, this is an adapter, this is going to go right into your 7 pole plug and it provides us with two 12 volt plugs that we can use for just about anything that we'd want. This is going to work out really well, whether you're camping, out on a picnic, tailgating or in an emergency situation, say one of our trailer tires here needed some air, a typical 12 volt compressor isn't going to reach all the way back there, but by putting this in the back of the vehicle, just going to slide right in, light comes on indicating we've got live 12 volt outlets right here, so we can plug whatever it is in and get that back to our trailer or maybe we're tailgating and we want our 12 volt cooler or 12 volt refrigerator hooked up.In camping situations it can be really nice to plug this into your vehicle, parked pretty close to the tent, and then just use an extension to go into your tent. Now, in whatever situation you're going to be using it in, you can power all kinds of accessories, we can even put a small inverter into this and charge up laptops, or we can charge up any kind of technology that uses a straight household style plugin or cell phones. I really don't like when I'm sitting on the tailgate somewhere, listening to the dogs around or whatever the case is having to get into my phone or into my car to grab my phone if it's on the charger and bring it back here, you can power refrigerators, you can power coolers if you're tailgating, if you're camping, you can use an extension to get 12 volt power into your tent.And this is going to eliminate the need for running any of those cords through the windows and leaving our window cracked or running them through our door jam and slamming our door on them, which can do damage, this gives us exactly what we need, right out here, where it's really accessible and easy to get to.

Overall this is a really nicely built plug, all the seams matched together really well, you can tell they took some time in designing it to make sure it was going to be a good, long lasting type of product.You'll see, it's only has two contexts, one is going to be for ground and the one up here in the one o'clock position, we turn it that way it'll be at one o'clock, that's going to be providing the power, so the best way to know whether you're going to have power at this rear plug, which is a question we get from quite a few customers like, "How do I know if my plug's powered with my keys off"Because we don't want to leave the key on to operate this. So it's at one o'clock pin located right up there at the top, if you just ground off to your bumper or something with a test light and touch it, if your keys off and your test light goes off, you've got power, if not, there is a work around for that, you can actually take the wire that comes off the back of that plug and cut it, do away with the old wire and run your new wire, using a couple of heat shrink butt connectors up to your battery, you want to be sure you go through a 40 amp breaker just so that breaker will protect everything involved in the circuit, but that'll give you constant power back here, so it's a pretty easy workaround.And in some situations you won't even have to do that, in a lot of the Chevy trucks like this one, the GMC trucks, you might just have to connect a wire up to your power center and other vehicles, maybe it's just a relay that needs to go in or a fuse that goes in, so some pretty simple solutions to have constant power back here if that's something you're after. When using this plug, we always recommend some dielectric grease, basically that keeps any moisture from getting in here and causing us issues with corrosion. Corrosion's generally the number one thing that's going to make something like this fail, so by putting that grease in there, you're going to prevent that from happening, you should have great service for a long time to come, gets great customer reviews, people have used this to solve all kinds of problems that they had and even after a year of service still works good, still doing what it needs to do, still giving me the power I want, so overall, it's a really, really good product.We're going to slide it in here, we've got a 12 volt air compressor just to give you an idea of how this is going to help us out, so we'll slide this in here as we do we want to make sure that catch on the door comes down behind that tab that sticks up, you can see that tab right there. So that's going to go in and we want that to come down and right behind it, that'll keep it from coming out and I'll grab that compressor and show you how it extends that range quite a bit.Here's one of those many situations where this could come in handy.

Assume we've got a 10 foot power cord and about a 10 foot hose on this compressor, if we we're to plug this set up there in the truck where we normally would, we wouldn't be able to get to our boat tires and maintain them or trailer tires, so just by plugging this in, it's going to give us the power we need, see the compressor's going to turn on and that'll give us the length to get back here and do maintenance in some of these situations where we otherwise wouldn't be able to.Something else I like about this one, versus some of the other ones that are available out there, is that we have the dual 12 volt outlets. There are several other types available that just have a single and while that would be handy to have as well, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you can have two available, why wouldn't you Overall, if you asked me if I'd own this, I definitely would, I'd have this around all the time, it could be extremely useful, maybe not all the time, but in the situations you need it, it be extremely handy. I could see out hanging out doing a picnic or something, having my phone charged into one side, my speaker charged in the other side and it basically gives me an unlimited music source, I wouldn't be searching for chargers, wouldn't be searching first back to plug it in and I wouldn't have to worry about cables and things running in and out of my door jams or windows, so think it could be a good solution in a lot of different situations, just be really handy to have..