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Whether its for a mobile bike party or a solar powered concert, a 12V or 24V sound system is the key. I recently built several systems for mobile bik...
The key to any battery-powered sound system is efficiency. Home and car sound gear is not designed to be efficient or light - it just isn't a concern...
PA, DJ and "Live Sound" speakers are the best place to look for efficiency. You will find the efficiency measured as "SPL 1w/1m" in the spec sheets o...
For amplifiers there is really only one choice: a Tripath-based amp, sometimes called a T-amp, Class-T amp, or Digital amp. These ultra-efficient won...
I got 2 different TK2050 amps from Sure Electronics - their original 100W system and the "improved" 100W system. These are both "bare board" amps. A...
If you want to have a microphone or any 2nd input in addition to your mp3 player then you need a powered mixer. Also, the higher-power 100W amplifie...
for the smaller TA2024 and TA2020 amps, a 12V battery is needed. To get full power from a big TK2050 amp you need 24V, although it is possible to run...
Depending on your application, you may want to improve the waterproofing or vibration proofing of your gear. Waterproofing - if you are re-cycling a ...
ok there's an easy way and a hard way for everything. If you want the easy way, here it is: read the previous steps. get an efficient speaker (or 2...
Along my quest for speaker efficiency I started thinking about Active speakers (also called Powered speakers). This is the term for when the amp is b...
to make the fully integrated 12V amp + speaker, you need: - speaker - stereo amp - crossover Check the system diagrams below. When the crossover co...
First remove the speaker back plate. this may be easy or difficult depending on the speaker. If its impossible, you can remove the woofer instead to...
we need to attach both our crossover and our amp to the backplate (or elsewhere inside). the photos show the mounting on a Pyle PPHP121 plate. - rem...
this shows a TK2050 "improved" model amp from sure electronics. notice i removed the fan from the amp. when used inside the speaker, the woofer wil...
- if you are using my monoXover crossover, the woofer output will be "out2" on the amp and tweeter will be "out1" on the amp. - if you aren't sure w...
it's done!
i built some more setups with other speakers, here are some photos of those. check the photo notes for more info.
We tested all the speakers. Our reference is Deep's set of 120V active powered Yamaha's. Deep has been using his mobile dance party setup all over s...
I haven't tried building my own speaker boxes yet. it's rather time consuming. i'm not sure if you can improve efficiency by making your own box, bu...
thanks to: deep jake paul
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