Installing USB charger

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   Dave,

My lights are 12V, nowhere do I have 120V lights.  You can't tie 12V and 120 together, never.  When I installed my USB ports with lighter socket I hooked to the spare fuse application at the 12V fuse panel.  Works fine, my sockets are in the right hand bench , facing the door, on a 178.

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mcarter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419	Topic: Installing USB charger Posted: 16 Jun 2019 at 4:29pm
	Dave, My lights are 12V, nowhere do I have 120V lights. You can't tie 12V and 120 together, never. When I installed my USB ports with lighter socket I hooked to the spare fuse application at the 12V fuse panel. Works fine, my sockets are in the right hand bench , facing the door, on a 178.
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HockeyDave Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 May 2018 Location: Denver, CO Online Status: Offline Posts: 10	Posted: 16 Jun 2019 at 3:46pm
	I am certainly not an electrician and need help with something. 2015 RPod 179. I am installing USB charging ports by the bed. I have run wiring from the light above the bed to the valence area. I discovered which existing wires were 12V DC and which are 120V AC. I was about to hook things up when I thought of something. Normally, the 12V positive and 120V positive wires are hooked together, then run to the light. Same with the negatives. But, I wondered, if I put all the positives together and all the negatives together, will that send 120V AC current down the wire to my USB charger (which is made for 12V DC), and blow the little in-line fuse? I mean, whenever I am hooked to shore power. I thought well, maybe I should just install a small on/off switch right by the light to interrupt the current to the USB charging port when I am plugged into shore power? Any savvy electricians out there that can help me with this? The LED light somehow handles both being plugged into it... Thanks! Dave
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