caliguy2004

ok so i have this sick *** home sterio with external speakers.... i have alredy molded the small house stereo into the car, and i have to connect the +- left and the +- right of all 4 car speakers to only 2 connections of the car.. what do i do....

i think it similar to connecting your computer to the car.

please help me out... ill post pics when im done.

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RedGTiVR6

a home stereo with external spakers? as opposed to....??

by 'molded the small house stereo into the car' what do you mean? you have molded the reciever and amplifier into the trunk of the car? how are you powering this? I hope not an inverter....

connecting 4 speakers to only 2 inputs in the car? in the car where? the stock radio? the home reciever you've molded into the car?

I cannot help you as I cannot understand your post at all...please try and be a little more descriptive.

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caliguy2004

well, i took some llike clock raido thing and loved the way it worked in the house. i took out my car stereo and put it in it. no i gota figure out how to power a home stereo and how to connect the car speakers to it.

blkwrx

I'll look past the why and try to help you.

So your trying to connect a home radio to your car. Things you need to know.
1. What it needs for power. It will usually say it on the back near where the plug connects.
2. What the rms and ohm rating of the speakers that are supposed to be connected to it are to insure that it will work well with you car speakers.

And now I am going to ask it... Why??? Its going to be difficult to implement and probably sound crappy.

caliguy2004

here is why....
http://www.ihomeaudio.com/products.a...1&dept_id=1003

i want to put that in my car....
the pop out ipod thing would be cool...

i opened it up and took out the speakers. now i wana connect my car speakers where the orignal speakers were and power it.

any tips or what wires?

blkwrx

Can you answer any of my questions above? You do realize this will probably not go smoothly...

caliguy2004

well its a regular house thing... im thinking 110..
i opened it up and inside where the power thing is it says 94v-0

so im guessing it gona need atleast 94 vaults...
i was thinking of a power inverter but i heard its not the best way.

as fot the speakers in the car they are stock

the speakers in the system are small and dont say ohm's or rms or anyhting on them. if u would like i can take pics of what i need to do,

RedGTiVR6

vaults? do you mean volts?

using an inverter on something like this is just plain nuts.

I would NOT recommend doing this, not at all. Cut your losses and find another way to make this happen. Use a dock.

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Enforcer

OK. I'll throw my tuppence worth into this.

Again I'll ignore the why.


1 Sometimes things like this have a DC input sometimes they don't. Have a good look around and see if there is any form of socket that indicates it might have a DC connection.

2. If it has a hadphone out, then you could hook it up to a HU that has AUX in, much like we do with our Car PCs


3. This seems to be a real edneck thing to do. Where you from?

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LaxPlaya8513

okay, i'll be the a-hole here. This is stupid and very juvenile thinking... Don't tear apart a perfectly good unit, leave that in the home. Some home equipment may work in cars, that doesn't work.

Or what you can do is sell that unit and invest your money into a good car stereo w/ an Ipod connection. Or you can go even further and purchase a CarPC to work in the vehicle. But again, i'm just trying to tell you that i've seen people do things like this before and it's not worth it whatsoever.

Btw. If you must, power inverter into the unit, take the audio output and hopefully your radio has an AuxInput and connect the audio into that. Otherwise, buy an amplifier, connect the audio output from the unit into the amp, from the amp to the speakers. I'm assuming you're trying to use as little money as possible? My recommendation, save your money up until you can get a half decent setup. That's what i recommend to MANY people alike.

caliguy2004

1st im from san fran....

2nd... i want to be able to control my ipod from my car but also have a nice docking system so i can easily move my ipod with me.

3rd if i can find a touchscreen monitor the can control the ipod thhat would be awsome.

so here are pics of "the box" that im trying to fin in my car.

caliguy2004

if u watch this video like the last 10 seconds it showes u how the ipod pops out... i wana put that thing in my car so that when i turn off my car the ipod is hidden and people cant see it to steal it...
http://www.ihomeaudio.com/video/

is there a way i can just take out the pop out tray and power it and connect it to a monitor? possably a touch monitor or something where i can see the ipod screen on the monitor and navagate?

LaxPlaya8513

yep...buy a screen with Ipod control, you can get some cheap screens now a days with that that comes standard...like the Jensen touchscreens. Cheap, but they work. Or go a step above and buy a better screen.... look up Jensen screens....www.audiovox.com and navigate to multimedia systems.

caliguy2004

will i be able to navagate the ipod touch? say i ought the screen and i put my ipod... will whatever is on my ipod show up on the touchscreen? will i be able to 100% navagate it?

basicly what do i have to do to connect my ipod to a touchscreen and be able to navagate the ipod menue from the screen

blkwrx

IMO the right way to do this would be to get a HU with iPod controls. Then take the dock out of that unit and modify it to fit with the HU (assuming you have a 2 din opening or another place to mount the dock). That way you get the benefit of the hu but still have the hideaway dock for your iPod.

Actually if you do it well it would be pretty slick.

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