Powering A Sound Room

[canadapettit 10+ year member]

This is a questions really for people who work in a car audio store. What do you guys use to power your sound room? At our store we just have a 50 amp power supply but we want to add more stuff but we need more power. Just curious as to what some of you might use.

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[canadapettit 10+ year member]

no shit sherlock, but i'm just curious to know what some of you guys use. I know some Circuit Citys use 100 amp power supplies, but unfortunately we do not have 220 run behind our sound room, so i'm just trying to get ideas

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Just plug teh moofas straight into teh wall sockets.

 

[Techchild 10+ year member]

I hear people modify there computer power supplys to run amps.

You could also just use plate amps.

 

[canadapettit 10+ year member]

I wasn't trying to get get defensive Spider, just trying to make a joke and get an answer

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

uh, you mean you have a 50 amp power supply plugged into a 110 vac / 20 amp breaker outlet? Because that would make alot more sense then a 50 amp 110 vac breaker that you have 12 VDC equipment plugged into //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Techchild 10+ year member]

I wasn't trying to get get defensive Spider, just trying to make a joke and get an answer

Just let it go with monkey he needs his cage cleaned.

 

[canadapettit 10+ year member]

Because that would make alot more sense then a 50 amp 110 vac breaker that you have 12 VDC equipment plugged into //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

I guess it goes without saying that it is an Astron RM-50M 12 volt DC power supply

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

guys here use 100A PS with a bank of stinger batts.

 

[canadapettit 10+ year member]

guys here use 100A PS with a bank of stinger batts.

That would work great, if I had 220 run behind the soundroom, 100 amp ps would draw a lot of current at 110. Batts would be a good idea if I could find an effective way of charging them.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

I guess it goes without saying that it is an Astron RM-50M 12 volt DC power supply

ok thats better //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

why dont you just get a couple of them, and run them off of seperate breakers? Id imagine three of them would be able to power plenty of head units, and about 4-6 small to mid sized amplifiers.

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

There is a small nuclear reactor powering all the demo stuff in the back of my local shop

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

why not just get 220v ran? It's very simple to do.