Car Audio In My Room

[SKY 34]

purchased some sound sytem stuff recently...but don't have the intention to fit into my car as yet...holiday coming, thinking go down the track....

just wondering...I've seen those promoters in autosalon hang their subs on the wall, connected....hehehe..maybe, I should try connect the system in my room? since it's doing nothing atm...~~ wanted to get sealed battry...but it'll go flat real soon...how do I connect car audio to a power plug??

thanks~~

[oRiCLe]

i had my sub running of my home theater setup, make sure the amp is capable of running the ohms the sub would be putting out and make sure its low passed and you shoule be right, i had mine running 4ohm per coil off 2 channels of a household amp with the sub feed from my theater receiver works a treat...

otherwise, you can buy power converters from jaycar that will run a full stereo system, head unit amps and speakers for about 250-300ish i think from memory...

[Abo Bob]

I used to use a battery charger for power to my car stereo when it was in the house. Fairly cheap option but not sure you would have the amps for a big system.

[parish]

what you can do is use an old computer power supply should run everything pretty well, I wasn't exactly running a stereo off it, but had a VHF hooked up to it and it worked a treat for me

(then again you might need some bigger amperes not 100% sure what comes out of PC power supply)

[oRiCLe]

that could work but i think the pc power supplies are around 4A mark, so it should run a headunit fine, but an amp will probably draw 20A+, even more maybe...

This is the baby you can get from jaycar:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?I...eMax=&SUBCATID=

Can get them for $319 if anyone is interested also...

Edited November 21, 2005 by oRiCLe

[bankids]

pc power is good enough for my sony 600w

[Josh]

You could prolly run an AC to DC converter and just run everything off that..

[SKY 34]

waah quite expensive $300 ..huum probably will pass...custom boot instalation cost $800 that's like 1/3 cost....

I've got 600 w mono and 15" sub....is it possible to be run on the car battry charger?..huum computer power source...

might be enough to run the headunit but how bout the remaining system?

thanks for reply ...

[SKY 34]

I'm thiking to use cd player connect to amps, speakers and subs...because my headunit is now in my car....how to do the connection?

yah what happened if I put in too much power? kaboom? or is there some safety power cut thingy..