As Harleyrider suggested, I bought from BMW a male plug to go into the bike's female socket and connected to it a short wire that I connected to a 'car cigarette' male thingy (Maplins). I then alternately plugged the car type plugs on my mobile phone, i-Pod etc when they needed charging - and boogied all the way to mid-Italy quite happily. I also had ready wired up an inspection light but didn't need it!
I did take care when connecting the wire at both ends to keep the correct polarity to the plug centre and the centre of the socket (similarly the other polarity to the surrounding sheath) just in case it was wrong and something managed to reach earth.
Question - can you charge a digital camera off this or is some transforner required?
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