Badtux making sense, Ian Welsh on the long suck/deep dive, and this sure sounds like deserved Karma to me...
I really hate cigarette type plugs... They're cheap, cheesy, and dangerous. I remove them from various 12-volt objects that come with them and replace with Anderson Power Pole connectors which happen to work finestkind but are still cheap and not inclined to melt or cause a fire aboard like the aforementioned cigarette plug.
They really are pretty awesome.
A natural progression is using Anderson poles for power distribution...
Listening to Emily Portman
So it goes...