Hooking up car audio inside?

[spade914 10+ year member]

I know its not exactly normal, but I have a pretty decent amp and sub sitting here just collecting dust (carless for the time being, long story). How hard would it be to hook it up to a home stereo? Youtube has plenty of videos showing amps running off PSU's, but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience doing something like this before.

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[undeadxsunshine 10+ year member]

Yup I do. Quite easy to mod a computer psu.

 

[spade914 10+ year member]

What all would that entail?

I work for a computer repair company, it shouldn't be much of a problem.

 

[Plutoman 10+ year member]

Get the 12v DC line, make sure it puts enough power out for the amp, plug it in, wire the amp to it, and wallah. Not too complicated ^^

Get the sub in a box, wire it up to the amp, and connect some RCA's to the amp.

 

[spade914 10+ year member]

anyone else tried this?

 

[Compjake 10+ year member]

I have, it works good but dont expect to run alot of power. most psu's are 15 to 20 amps output at 12v.

 

[83GT50 10+ year member]

I've done it, you can buy a ac to dc 12v converter at radioshack. But you can also get the power supply out of a computer (the supply with the switch on it, i forget the model) and they work too. If you google it you can find wiring diagrams on the computer power supply and you just get the 12v pos and neg.