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question about subwoofers and amp

Old Aug 31, 2009 | 09:54 AM
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i have 2 12v in subs in my boat that im not using anymore. do they make a amp that can be plugged into a 110v outlet in your house that hooks up to the subs for a car?
 
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Old Aug 31, 2009 | 11:10 AM
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yes and no, i have one for a cooler that can be plugged into a wall or a car outlet. That draws big amps, it could probably be used for a car amp that you could hook up to it.
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you can probably go to tweeter and have them hook you up with something.
 
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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 11:51 PM
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do they make any sort of like a power converter that switches 110-12v rather than a normal 12-110 converter. it would be nice to take my subs and amp out of my dodge since i never use them and hook them up in my home theater surround sound system
 
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 05:47 PM
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They should still make those. I have one from a radio we had at our house before they put phone lines in. I'm not sure what the specs are on it or anything but I kept it around because it's handy for testing anything off a car.

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Try that, don't know how big you would want though?
 

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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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You can pick up a 12v converter from Radioshack, however they usually dont have enough power to run Amp and sub. I had a similar set up and the Amp would throw protection easy.
 
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Old Sep 3, 2009 | 12:06 AM
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the stearo system has a main amplifyer that all the components run into its about a $2k system about 5 years ago it dint come with a sub, what about just hooking the subs into the axilary audio autput, woul that work?
 
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Old Sep 3, 2009 | 04:46 AM
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yes, 120v->12v I bought at kmart before they went under a bit ago when I was in the ricer scene . I actaully fried it by testing 2 big air compessors on it, wast sure what the amperage on it was, but it melted
 
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Old Sep 3, 2009 | 10:46 PM
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if its not enough i guess i will get a transformer
 
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Old Sep 4, 2009 | 12:17 AM
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What about selling the amp and subs and taking the cash and put it towards a sub made for the application? Just a thought. I thought about the same thing a few yrs back but didn't do it.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2009 | 12:20 AM
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could do that i guess
 
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