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Topic: car stereo at home

Posted By: wahidul89
Subject: car stereo at home
Date Posted: February 06, 2006 at 4:55 AM

hi everyone, my first post.

My mate recently bought this thing so he can use his car stero at home, he told me he someone bought if for him for  around £15-20. Does anybody know the name of it and where i can buy it from.

THanks




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Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: February 07, 2006 at 7:38 PM

A basic 12 volt power supply (transformer) will do it- as long as it'll provide the amperage you need.



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Posted By: wahidul89
Date Posted: February 21, 2006 at 3:50 AM

thank for the reply. i went on to ebay to look for a 12v transformer but the only ones that i found were the ones with a charger kind of port. not an iso connector thingy





Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: February 21, 2006 at 7:40 PM
A good 12 volt power supply is not cheap. Here in the Great White North they average $500.00 for anything of substantial size to power a headunit, amp and sub system. A basic 12 volt power supply is cheap and is usually rated at 10 amps or less, so far from enough current to drive a system by any means. Cascade Audio Engineering makes some supplies, do a google search for them to see what you can find.

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Posted By: wahidul89
Date Posted: February 22, 2006 at 6:29 AM

allright, you have lost me. i looked up what you sed, u gave me the name of a company that makes power like a generator kind of thingy. But what i am looking for is for me to put one end into the wall (plug) and the other end in the car stereo.

thanks a lot





Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: February 22, 2006 at 8:10 PM

As long as you're not using external amps or anything, but just running speakers off a head unit (car cd player), you just need a basic 12 volt power supply.  You're maybe looking around 50 bucks American, price will vary based on your equipment's current demands.  Something like this would work: https://www.baproducts.com/pyramid.htm.  You could always put the power supply inside a cabinet or something, and run wires from there to an outlet you install elsewhere.

It's kind of an inefficient way of doing it- it's best just to use home equipment, which is why we usually recommend doing so.



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