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Re: Car Audio on a Cart - Alternatives to Battery Power?

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Originally Posted by SuperDanman
thanks for the link, but those are kinda out of our budget. Is it possible to buy something like a 12v, 10amp power supply for around $50 at most?



What about powering the stereo through a battery while the battery is hooked up to a battery charger? My gut instinct tells me thats a really bad idea, but can anyone explain why?

Better yet, if anyone has created such a cart, how did you go about the task of powering your system?
Last year on 212 we had a head unit simmilar to the one you described in power ratings and a 300 watt amp all running off of a lawnmower battery we bought at sears for 20 bux it lasted a whole day. The ratings on head units are peak power, i.e. when bass kicks and the volume is all the way up. We had 2 batteries and made it easy for us to change them, but the die hard battery lasted all friday at nats, so that was alot of play time.
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