Is it possible to wire my 460 watt amp and a 15" subwoofer from my car onto my computers sound system? Would i need to buy a receiver or a battery or what would I need to do? Fabrication ideas are welcome because that is probably what i will need to do.

 

Im sure you would need atleast a battery, the amp is probably going to drain the battery pretty fast, so I dunno if its such a great idea... Why not just buy a nice sound system for the comp??

 

why would it drain the battery really fast and not a car battery fast...couldnt i just use a car battery? and I already have a nice amp and sub and I was just wanted to know if I could cause I am poor.....im in college so trust me....I got plenty of time on my hands to jimmy-rig somethin up

 

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Ok..quik and simple. Im sure you understand how a car battery works in a car. You have an alternator, and that alternator charges your battery. If you hook up the amp and sub to your comp, it will still boom but for how long? Your battery is going to die out unless you find something to charge it up? Unless you could jimmy rig up an alternator and use that to charge your battery.

 

I guess you could use a trickle charger and leave it hooked up to the battery ALL the time...

 

I wonder how that would work.

I priced out AC to DC converters a little while back because I was testing out different box designs and wanted to be able to do it on the bench and not have to be in the car. A converter that could handle the watts I needed ended up being so expensive I decided it would be less expensive to just buy a dedicated AC sub power amp.

If I were you, I would keep the box and sub and just get an amp like this:
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe...0-794

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Go to wal mart, grab a battery for $40, and use a 10 amp charger. You can go to radio shack and grab a wire for $6 to convert a headphone jack to two RCAs.

A suggestion, for the remote wire, you can splice off the yellow wire coming from your computer's power supply (grab an extension or something to do this) and then run that to the remote connector on your amp.

 

wouldnt it be easier jsut to sell what you have now and put the money towards a home theater sub?