Sienna config/mod?---How to keep power to "car lighter" sockets always on.

2006 Sienna LE(2)

I'm often in the position of wanting to leave my cell phone in the car, and
since they are smart enough to relay off when filled, and lithium ions
actually prefer to be shallow charged often, it will not hurt anything.
There are *other* reasons for wanting always-on too, not worth getting into.

However, I've discovered that contrary to what the salesman told me, it
shuts off when the car is shut off.

Is there a configuration under the hood or elsewhere to easily enable this,
or am I going to need to wire something? If these power sockets are on
their own circuit all by themselves, I can do this easily (approximately 1
minute) at the fusebox with my own inline fuse, and a line from one of the
always-on circuits to the prior fuse position. Done this before.

Anyone know if there is a turnkey solution to this somewhere?

THANKS

"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:Hd26g.8392$b77.326@trndny03...[color=blue]
>
> 2006 Sienna LE(2)
>
> I'm often in the position of wanting to leave my cell phone in the car,
> and since they are smart enough to relay off when filled, and lithium ions
> actually prefer to be shallow charged often, it will not hurt anything.
> There are *other* reasons for wanting always-on too, not worth getting
> into.
>
> However, I've discovered that contrary to what the salesman told me, it
> shuts off when the car is shut off.
>
> Is there a configuration under the hood or elsewhere to easily enable
> this, or am I going to need to wire something? If these power sockets are
> on their own circuit all by themselves, I can do this easily
> (approximately 1 minute) at the fusebox with my own inline fuse, and a
> line from one of the always-on circuits to the prior fuse position. Done
> this before.
>
> Anyone know if there is a turnkey solution to this somewhere?
>
> THANKS[/color]

I'm pretty sure that the power sockets share the circuit with other items.
The easiest and cleanest solution would be to unplug the wire at the back of
the socket and run a separate wire from the socket to one of those push-in
taps at an always hot circuit at the fuse box. When you sell the vehicle,
you can remove the push-in tap at the fuse box, plug the original wire back
into the socket, and pull the wire.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)

Have you checked your manual. I don't know about your model but in many you
can just move a fuse specified in the manual to make it always on.


"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:Hd26g.8392$b77.326@trndny03...[color=blue]
>
> 2006 Sienna LE(2)
>
> I'm often in the position of wanting to leave my cell phone in the car,
> and since they are smart enough to relay off when filled, and lithium ions
> actually prefer to be shallow charged often, it will not hurt anything.
> There are *other* reasons for wanting always-on too, not worth getting
> into.
>
> However, I've discovered that contrary to what the salesman told me, it
> shuts off when the car is shut off.
>
> Is there a configuration under the hood or elsewhere to easily enable
> this, or am I going to need to wire something? If these power sockets are
> on their own circuit all by themselves, I can do this easily
> (approximately 1 minute) at the fusebox with my own inline fuse, and a
> line from one of the always-on circuits to the prior fuse position. Done
> this before.
>
> Anyone know if there is a turnkey solution to this somewhere?
>
> THANKS
>[/color]

Have you checked your manual. I don't know about your model but in many you
can just move a fuse specified in the manual to make it always on.


"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:Hd26g.8392$b77.326@trndny03...[color=blue]
>
> 2006 Sienna LE(2)
>
> I'm often in the position of wanting to leave my cell phone in the car,
> and since they are smart enough to relay off when filled, and lithium ions
> actually prefer to be shallow charged often, it will not hurt anything.
> There are *other* reasons for wanting always-on too, not worth getting
> into.
>
> However, I've discovered that contrary to what the salesman told me, it
> shuts off when the car is shut off.
>
> Is there a configuration under the hood or elsewhere to easily enable
> this, or am I going to need to wire something? If these power sockets are
> on their own circuit all by themselves, I can do this easily
> (approximately 1 minute) at the fusebox with my own inline fuse, and a
> line from one of the always-on circuits to the prior fuse position. Done
> this before.
>
> Anyone know if there is a turnkey solution to this somewhere?
>
> THANKS
>[/color]

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:[color=blue]
> 2006 Sienna LE(2)
>
> I'm often in the position of wanting to leave my cell phone in the car, and
> since they are smart enough to relay off when filled, and lithium ions
> actually prefer to be shallow charged often, it will not hurt anything.
> There are *other* reasons for wanting always-on too, not worth getting into.
>
> However, I've discovered that contrary to what the salesman told me, it
> shuts off when the car is shut off.
>
> Is there a configuration under the hood or elsewhere to easily enable this,
> or am I going to need to wire something? If these power sockets are on
> their own circuit all by themselves, I can do this easily (approximately 1
> minute) at the fusebox with my own inline fuse, and a line from one of the
> always-on circuits to the prior fuse position. Done this before.
>
> Anyone know if there is a turnkey solution to this somewhere?
>
> THANKS
>
>[/color]
Check with your dealer. My 1996 Dodge Caravan had a replacement solenoid
plugin that took 1 minute to insert in a fusebox under the hood, to
achieve what you want. Ask your dealer, or Toyota on line, if such a fix
is available. I would be hesitant about actually changing the wiring,
which is so complex in current vehicles.

Good luck.

Morton