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Sometime in the summer of 2001
Ok, there are not a lot of pictures available for this so let me just give you a quick run down of whats going on. I had recently wrecked my 91 Ford Escort LX and had a bunch of stuff laying around left over. I had (3) Rockford Fosgate Punch XLC 12's sitting in a box (the first box I ever built), a couple of Rockford Fosgate 5" x 7"'s, a couple pair of Lexon brand 200 watt 2" tweeters and the old tride and true Legacy series I 400 watt amplifier. Here's a pic of the subs we are dealing with here...
Having the desire to have a stereo system on my home computer for party purposes etc. I went out and snagged a nice 12 volt converter. I hooked the 5x7's and tweeters and wired them in series. Both sets of speakers had internal crossovers, except the woofer on the 5x7's, so I wasn't too worried. Each series set was wired to a channel of the amplifier.
The (3) SVC 4 ohm subs were wired in parallel and wired to the bridged terminals of the amp. The whole thing was run to the computer via an RCA to 1/4" headphone jack that had come with a set of computer speakers I had purchased.
The sound was pretty amazing really. The amp's xo was set at Full pass and the gain was turned to about 1/4. No 12 Volt supply I use can put up with this kind of strain for more than 4 hours or so. Being's that the box was so incredibly large, I actually had good in-room response in the lower octaves.(40hz and below)
This is just to show that this type of thing can be done, and quite easily. It's not recommneded but it will work!! Projects like this one are what make this hobby so much fun.... check back as I will be posting a step-by-step on how to hook car audio amps, woofers and speakers up to common audio sources in the home.
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