Powering a Car Audio amp at home.

[BooLeaN 10+ year member]

I am wondering where I can get something that will allow me to power a caraudio amp at home. I want to use an older RF 225.2 to power a sub for my home stereo since my home amp (for sub) just broke.

Thanks,

Craig G

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[urwhatueati8god 10+ year member]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=541436&Sku=D15-1000&CatId=1079

You'll have to also replace some wires and the like.

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

Use a battery charger...

 

[no_vendetas 10+ year member]

Use a battery charger...

Really?!? That'll work? But Dont they make a converter to change House current to car current?

 

[birsling 10+ year member]

Really?!? That'll work? But Dont they make a converter to change House current to car current?

Yeah, it's an AC/DC adaptor, but there's more to it than that. The cpu power supply is an interesting, and good, idea. Never thought about it.

 

[urwhatueati8god 10+ year member]

We did it at my friends house, wired his entire room with neons, a battery charger won't work, because it has resistors so it would only "trickle charge" the battery. you can get ac to dc convertors regularly, but they're really expensive.

 

[Rockman 10+ year member]

Search ebay for an Astron Power Supply. 30 amp or larger. Thats all your need to run the amplifer. Wire it like normal power wires from the power supply and your input signal to the RCA's from whatever source your gonna use.

 

[bang hard 10+ year member]

i kinda did the same thing, i had my hole system in my room. i had the cd player and everthing, you need an adapter, i took a car battery and grounded it or i used a 12 volt ac to dc adapter. they both worked you just half to know what your doing.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

If you are going to do it right, it would be cheaper to just get a new amp for your house.

 

[Dupuis 10+ year member]

Here you go. Good power at a good price.

http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&DID=7&WebPage_ID=3

 

[Dupuis 10+ year member]

Here you go. Good power at a good price.
http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&DID=7&WebPage_ID=3

Sorry wrong link. I'll get it up after lunch.

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Battery chargers have no filtering, you'll get a whole lot of AC hum.

The $49 PC supply is a cool idea. It'll do 20 amps at 12 volts. Enough for a HU and small amp.

Radio Shack has (or had) a 25 amp 12V supply for reasonable cost.

Tripp Lite and Pyramid have good sized ones too. But when you get up to 50 amps or more, helotaxi's correct: it's cheaper to buy an amp that runs on 120V.

 

[theimpaler 10+ year member]

this is the way to do it correctly.

http://www.cascadeaudio.com/prod/powersupp.html

i have an iota dls75 myself and never use the darn thing. its a novel idea but not practical in my opinion. save your money and buy a nice home amp instead ala peavey or something like that.

 

[Dupuis 10+ year member]

O.K. it won't let me link right to them. Go to the site and type "plate amp" in the search box. Good power for a good price.

http://www.partsexpress.com/index.cfm

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

get yourself a decent car battery and throw it in your house, hook it up to a battery charger and bling, there ya go. disc the batt charger if it has ac hum, just charge it when u sleep

 

[BooLeaN 10+ year member]

Thanks everyone. All are great ideas. I might just get my amp fixed since those converters are soo much money. I figured that I could save a bit of money if I went with a caraudio amp like an old RF but it seems that after all costs incurred, I will lose money.

Maybe if I can get the money, I'll get something bigger, like 500 watts or so.

Thanks,

Craig G