USB in panel

[Lotahp1]

I’m currently gathering up instruments and designing my new rear panel for my Starduster Too. I see they have USB panel mounted ports now made for the aviation world. I’m just not much of a tech guy so I’m trying to see if there is any reason to have these WITH or in place of a cigarette lighter receptacle. (They obviously make all sorts of USB adapters you use with the cigarette receptacle). The only thing I could come up with is you could wire the usb receptacle into your com/intercom so you could hear music from a portable device. (Right?). Other than that is there any other benefits or reasons to use the stand alone USB receptacle over a cigarette receptacle with a USB adapter if needed? (I’m going to have a Garmin 696 hard wired and have built in com, intercom so only portable device I can think I might use will be a iPad for navigation maybe and charging my phone etc. I plan on using XM radio for music since I like the XM Weather anyway)

 

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