Haha nice work!
We've got a kickass stereo in our cave now. Car stereo, amped speakers and a sub running off 3 old car batteries connected to a charger.
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Haha nice work!
We've got a kickass stereo in our cave now. Car stereo, amped speakers and a sub running off 3 old car batteries connected to a charger.
Sounds great - I'm on the same path - car head unit, connected to 12v battery with iPod player, and then connected to these bad boys ..Quote:
Originally Posted by KRISTOFFA
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Ohhhh yeeeeaaahhh !!!!!! lmao
Neighbours are gunna love you Scotty hahahahahahahaha
Tap, Tap.......Who's there?
Head units only usually put out 50W per channel though wouldn't those speakers be severely under powered?
Nothing a good amp wont fix :). Cant wait to see this joint at the end of the month.
Amps draw a shit load of power though, we only get about 6 hours out of ours before it runs flat and that's with 3 batteries and a charger.
Yep, as per Matty's comments - an amp will sort that!!! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by KRISTOFFA
You can run the head unit through a 240v amp with RCA cables so as long as there is power in the shed we are set :)
Yeah we were gonna go down that path but a decent amp was too expensive, we already had all the 12V gear
Could get an inverter to run the 12v amp from 240v
Would need to be at least 100A, I work for an electrical wholesaler and I can't even source one.Quote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
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True. I have seen similar sort of setups with competition sound cars they just plug the bad boys into the wall so they dont kill their batteries I am curious now might have to do some googling
They would have a huge battery in and a high capacity charger I would say.
Our setup works for now but it's not really a good way of doing it, but it cost us nothing which is why we went that way. If we had all 240V gear we would have used that instead.
Bigrig's setup looks the go though! Bloody big towers haha hope you don't have neighbours.
Found this. Done a little reading and its what some guys are using for their audio demo cars.
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView...y&form=KEYWORD
Yeah thats fair enough. I would have probably done the same if i had all the gear lying around rather then spend money :)
40A would only power a pretty small setup, certainly not comp-spec. Stereo in my Patrol alone needs 100A
I used to do comps when I lived in Melbourne. Please share your setup. Would be interested to know If it truly needed 100 amps :)Quote:
Originally Posted by KRISTOFFA
600W in speakers and a 500W sub. Works out to be a bit under 100A and I know the speakers aren't using that much power all the time (if ever) but as a general rule of thumb you need a power supply that can handle about 30% over what you're using it for.
I'd be interested in entering mine in a local sound comp. Not because I think I'd win, I'm just curious as to how much noise it's putting out.
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I just re read what I wrote and it sounds like I'm a dick lol. Wasn't intended that way I'm writing this in bed haha. Yeah some comps have a open event where you can enter for shits and giggles. Which most people do what you said. Out of curiosity
There's a comp held at Autobarn down here every now and then. It's nothing formal, I'll go along next time though.
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I dont think You would ever pull 100A as your alternator physically couldnt keep up even a 120A alternator would be pushing it even when the car is running. If you have a look on your amp there will be a overload and short protection fuse, what size are these? This will generally tell you the peak amps your amp will pull. And most of the time the fuse you put inline on the main feed cable is about 70A.
HAHA I hadn't seen this thread and when I saw the title I thought "whoa !! They talking about man caves (feelings) " PMSLMFAO!!!!! Men are from Mars - Women are from Venus...
Lesson ; read more than title Sharen before coming to conclusions LOL
I'll check this tomorrow. The ~100A I said would probably be maximum current drawQuote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
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Managed to pull some photos off my busted phone. We made this fireplace and chimney yesterday
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...17880845_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...51521769_n.jpg
We also built the frame for the roof for the veranda out the front but I can't get access to those photos.
Good effort, hope your cables don't melt though lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
good to see you have snakeproofed your cave NOT
also wires running around the back of chimney are fine. just cool with water every now and then, NOT again
Winnie you need stuff like Farads, or storage capacitators, 80 watt solar panel to top up your batteries, have you seen a radio comp set up we are talking $$$$$$$$ not some old stereo speakers and 3 car batteries, Its an art, not my cup of tea but admire the workmanship. a friend has a holden FC 59 panel van the back is just speakers, perspex and amps. Looks awesome, sounds loud
Mate if snakes want to get in then they will not find it very hard at all. There is no door or anything on the shed. Cables are fine there too they run on top of that log, don't even heat up.
They not river rocks in there are they Poo.............river rocks have a nasty habit of going BANG
200ftx75ft nice man cave we have on the farm ;)