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It would appear to me that most of the stupid stuff you could plug into a cigarette lighter pales in comparison to the stupid stuff that you can plug into a 120

• oiujmngbvfgh 16y ago
  yes - I think thats the main objection to fitting 120VAC, the thought of an entire flight of teenage girls with hairdryers.
• snom370 16y ago
  Yep. And this is the reason that all the sockets have built-in current protection. Additionally, there are circuit breakers per seat row, which is what I discovered when I tried plugging in my 110W laptop power adapter into one of them. The other passengers on the seat row were not happy when the flight attendant said that they were not allowed to reset the breakers. Another lesson learnt - bring a lower power adapter. :(
• jewbacca 16y ago
  Perhaps this would be (or would be posed as) a security problem, too. I am not familiar with any specific methods of causing a large explosion that access to a 120V AC socket would allow, which not having access to one would not, with what is currently allowed to passengers through airport security [0]; But considering that producing a cigarette lighter or some nail polish remover in the cabin are grounds to be tackled by an air marshal and prosecuted, an electrical outlet is a hell of a lot of accessible power. [0] kindly disregard my past five minutes' search history, NSA sniffer