hooking up a computer sub to car audio

[suprapimpa]

Does anyone have any information on this topic? I have an altec lansing subwoofer i want to hook up to my car but I don't know how to convert the current cord to run off my battery or how to hook it up to the rca sub outputs. Also my amp inside the subwoofer is made to power two speakers as well as the sub does anybody know how to set it up so it will just power the sub?

[CHUPA_CABRA_2.0]

it all depends on who the girl in the pic is....nice pic. Ok It should play the sub only. Buy yourself a car inverter that plugs into your lighter or it can be the hard wired type depends on your install experience. Fro m the question it seems like you experience is minimal. I'm not sure it will sound good but that is how you would do it. BTW you will get flamed for this. And I was just answering the question not condoing the install. (Sorry gotta watch my back this place will burn ya!) LMK how it goes

[Notladstyle]

It should be simple to open it up and bypass the power supply inside of it. Most amps run at 12vAC with diodes inside. However, you will not even hear that sub in a car. what sounds massive in a house is like the weakest car sub evar.

[POST]

I'll sell you an amp and a subwoofer for 150 bucks as a combo. comes with free ugly box.


but it sounds STRONG and clear as hell, plus the amp puts out way more than the sub can take, so you can upgrade later ;).

[suprapimpa]

It should be simple to open it up and bypass the power supply inside of it. Most amps run at 12vAC with diodes inside. However, you will not even hear that sub in a car. what sounds massive in a house is like the weakest car sub evar.
I'm installing it in my center console so I'm hoping it will make for some nice tight bass. I had 2 JLW0's but I'm not that into bass anymore I just want something to hit the low spots so my speakers can focus on the mids and highs.

[suprapimpa]

heres what im working with
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http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/455/p6150309az5.jpg

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/159/p6150310yl4.jpg

I want to hardwire but I'm not sure exactly what to do. I've used an inverter before but I've never hardwired anything and I can't find any online tutorials or anything. Also what do I do about plugging it into the rca ouputs I can splice the lines together but I don't know what lines need to be spliced.

[TBSpyder]

Don't waste your time. You could probably find an old used car audio sub in a circuit city dumpster that would work better for you.

[suprapimpa]

EDIT: Nevermind I just found out this piece of shit only makes 18 watts rms. I'm going dumpster diving at circuit city tomorrow lol.

[Notladstyle]

18w rms would be very loud in a house.

[suprapimpa]

The speakers stopped working so i can't really use it in my house, but your right it was pretty loud in my house. I hooked it up to my headunit in my car which is about 25 watts but it distorted under heavy bass so I tossed the idea.

[Notladstyle]

You need a proper hardwired crossover and some type of enclosure to dampen the woofer.

Home audio equipment has notoriously loose suspension(hence the loud output with little power) but they will perform less than poorly in free air.

The problem is, to overcome the ambient noise in a car, the woofer would have to cough up 3/4 of its output for you to even hear it over road noise. Thats why car audio woofers sacrifice quality at low volumes for maintained output at high volumes.


Let us know how the dumpster diving goes!

[TpaS13]

lol just incase you acually do go, better skip the one on gunn hwy cause we dont throw anything like that out...only broken shit...