motorcycle battery

[wayfarerstranger]

Anyone ever run a car radio from a 12v motorcycle battery ?? or has anyone ever used a VOL-TA-DROP voltage reducer on a car ? thanx

[Rusty O'Toole]

Yes, if you have a regular radio it will last about a week. Recharge overnight with a battery charger and you are ready to go for another week.

There are different kinds of voltage reducers. I have used the resistor type to run gauges. There is also the Runtz and Zener diodes.

What exactly are you trying to do?

[greg g]

why not just use a jump start pack. They are about the same price as a MC battery, and being a dry cell or a gel/paste deal you don't have to worry about mounting or spilling issues.

plus you have some real juice if you ned to jump somebody. I have run my GPS for over a week with my jump pac, and I power a car radio in a portable box that will play for 4 or 5 days also.

[wayfarerstranger]

i have done the same thing with the jump box, i was just curious also saw a MC radio with speakers very small don`t know what it sounds like but seem like it would be easy to mount in a small place .

[pflaming]

Radio? Sing!. With todays' music you don't need a good voice! My brothers and I wanted a radio. Dad asked why, to hear music we replied, so he taught us how to sing. I've never needed a radio since!

[Plymouthy Adams]

in the absence of a good stereo..I'll take the earplugs..trust me..no music/singing talent in my family

[Eneto-55]

A friend of my daughter got ticketed here in Ohio for having earplugs on while driving. Illegal here.

My son put in a USB port in his 75 Dart to power his IPod (or what ever it's called). That's a 12v car, of course, but I don't imagine it would take much power to run one of those, and couldn't you plug it into some 6v speakers? Just a thought. OR put a solar array on the roof (LOL).

Neto

[White Spyder]

I use a small 12v dry cell (used to power emergency exit lighting) to power a small amp with an iPod jack. Plays through a modern speaker mounted in the OEM speaker position.

[Young Ed]

There is an article in the latest plymouth bulletin that says GPSs only take about 3.5 volts so they can charge right from your 6v lighter socket. I would imagine an Ipod is the same way.

[TodFitch]

There is an article in the latest plymouth bulletin that says GPSs only take about 3.5 volts so they can charge right from your 6v lighter socket. I would imagine an Ipod is the same way.

Thanks to government interference, new cell phones all can be charged from a USB port which is 5v. Turns out the government that is interfering is the Chinese government and China is the largest cell phone market in the world so all cell phones are designed so they can be sold there.

And, it seems, other small portable electronics are following suit with many if not all GPS devices also being able to be charged off of a USB plug.

It is pretty simple to regulate down your 6v to 8v car electrical system to 5v. The devices require negative ground but nearly all of them are housed in non-conductive plastic cases so you can just run the vehicle ground to the "hot" side of the device plug... I hid the whole thing under my dash: http://www.ply33.com/Repair/cellphone

[Death Dodger]

Many years ago I used a 6v to 12v converter to run a standard car stereo in my '40 Dodge. There are plenty of holes on the bottom of the dash, so mounting it was easy. It all worked great with no issues.

[BobT-47P15]

Back in the 1970s, when C B radios became popular with the general

public, I installed one in my 47 Plymouth coupe - powered by a 12V

car battery sitting in a small wooden box (for stability) in the trunk.

Worked fine - just needed recharging every so often.

Somewhere in my collection of "stuff" I have a power inverter for

6 to 12 V to run a newer radio. Haven't gotten a round tuit yet,

however.

[Don Coatney]

Thanks to government interference, new cell phones all can be charged from a USB port which is 5v. Turns out the government that is interfering is the Chinese government and China is the largest cell phone market in the world so all cell phones are designed so they can be sold there.

And, it seems, other small portable electronics are following suit with many if not all GPS devices also being able to be charged off of a USB plug.

It is pretty simple to regulate down your 6v to 8v car electrical system to 5v. The devices require negative ground but nearly all of them are housed in non-conductive plastic cases so you can just run the vehicle ground to the "hot" side of the device plug... I hid the whole thing under my dash: http://www.ply33.com/Repair/cellphone

This just in from the latest 1898 news flash,

Salem (Indiana) Democrat, November 4, 1898, p. 1.

Seems like John B. Clarke has ransacked Chinadom for all that's new and

novel and much of his store is kept asparkle wit bits of daintiness that

came from over the sea. Holiday stocks will be coming pretty soon and John

has clipped good liberal slices from the prices of much of his present

stock.

Any surprizes here?

[Merle Coggins]

Somewhere in my collection of "stuff" I have a power inverter for

6 to 12 V to run a newer radio. Haven't gotten a round tuit yet,

however.

Here you go, Bob.

I think that a 6 to 12v convertor is the way to go. I have one in my truck and use it to power my stereo and a couple of hidden power outlets so I can also use my GPS, power my I-pod that's plugged into the stereo (on longer trips) and/or charge a cell phone. I also use one of the power outlets to power my timing light during tune-ups.

Merle

[Smokeybear]

I bought a $50 battery booster pack from Wally world that has an on-board air compressor and a cigarette lighter receptacle to run 12 volt accessories ( http://www.walmart.com/ip/Schumacher-XP500-Jump-Starter/15140203 ). I then bought an amp made by Kicker ( http://www.hifisoundconnection.com/Kicker-PXi50.2-Car-Stereo-Motorcycle-ATV-UTV-Boat-PWC-iPod-iPhone-Amplifier-and-Controller-Music-Audio-System-11PXi50.2-N )that plugs directly into my Ipod I wired up an old cigarette lighter type terminal so that it could plug into the battery pack. I just take it in the house every couple of weeks and charge it back up. The battery pack sits behind the driver's seat The only thing that shows in the small head unit that I mounted in my $5 drink console sitting in front of the set. Simple, no exposed wires, and the air compressor came in handy when my fuel line became clogged on the road one day. I took the rubber line loose at the filter and blew air back toward the tank. Fixed.