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[bearynot 10+ year member]

is it possible to safely plug a car amp into a outlet in your house. if so how.

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[bass maniak 10+ year member]

lol no way man ur on smack.

thats how u blow shit up.

 

[slipknot87420 10+ year member]

w/ a power converter yes but i seriously doubt you will have enough amperes to power a moderate amp

 

[bearynot 10+ year member]

i know i need some type of converter but I still don't fully understand what i need and what needs to be done to do it right and safely. Pictures of what i need would be fantastic. thanks alot for any help. also how do amperes work.

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

The only type of high power converter I can think of would be a battery charger for like a car. Allthough this would work, your also gonna notice if you do this that the ouput from the battery charger is gonna look something like like a lake with 80 mph winds. The output is extremely unclean and rippled to the point that its almost useless, and I dont know if you can hook it up to a battery to try and filter the uneveness out of it like a capacitor does.

 

[somekook 10+ year member]

if you hooked up some diodes in line with the bat. charger and the amp it would clean the signal.... lol gettin complicated. i would just use a car battery and recharge it whenever i wasnt listening to the system.

i also dont think slipknot knows what hes talkin about.

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"w/ a power converter yes but i seriously doubt you will have enough amperes to power a moderate amp"

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[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

http://www.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=40350&highlight=amp%2A+home+converter

- Steve

 

[slipknot87420 10+ year member]

ummm how bout you stfu "somekook" go find a converter for a reasonable price that can supply 60amps, but if he's looking to spend some money then by all means he can buy it

 

[desi_daru 10+ year member]

get a ac/dc convertor

so 120v ac in, 12v dc out

i actually made one back in highschool

plug into the wall and u get +/- clips for the dc out, thign was pretty sweet till i lost it ahahah

hook it up and see hwo much juice u get

ive hooked up decks off 120v ac-->12v dc to see if they work and they did

also hooked up amp/subs but was long time ago so i cant remember wat they sounded like

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

by a big power supply sheesh

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Where can we get these large power supplies at? Please tell.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

how big do you want? 60 amp? or larger? they arent cheap

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Umm about 60 amp I guess, im just curious as to how much they are.

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Heh, well I just done an aol search for high current dc power supplies. Even got one company that supplied 0-5000 amp 12.5v dc power supplies, they were the size of cars but hell, thats alot of power. I found some more reasonable ones though. Found a digital 13.8v regulated switching power supply that could provide 40 amps cont. for only 299.

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

http://www.soundsdirtcheap.com

the biggest they have is 40 amps, not sure how big of an amplifier you are planning on runnin, but that could handle a small one.