powering a PS2??

powering a PS2??

I went with the A/V setup...

Does anyone know how to power the PS2/xbox when hooking it up in your car?

Do you have to buy a converter? thanks...

Yup, you're going to have to buy an inverter. It converts your car's power to a regular A/C jack like in your house.

they sell them at radioshack, i have one and i think it was 20 bucks. i found the best place to plug it in is in the arm rest. Let me know how it goes because i am interested in putting my ps2 in my car, but im not sure how or where to put it.

yea, you need to get a power inverter. like stated earlier, it converts the dc (what the car runs) to ac (what the ps2 runs)..i hear from a lot of people that the ps2 cannot handle harsh rides and might skip..a better alternative was an XBOX or other dvd player that was meant to be in a car video setup.

yeah just buy an inverter

you can get one a 400 Watt inverter at costco for pretty cheap. That's what I use to power my 188 watt Z-560 subwoofer in my trunk. But be careful, you can't draw too much power from the outlet. I've already blown 3 fuses. ( I guess plugging in two of the subwoofers wasn't a good idea). I hear it's better to directly connect to the batter. The only question now is how much the alternator can handle.... anyone?

Re: yeah just buy an inverter

Hahaha, sorry. thats kinda funny. The PS2/Xbox only pull about 100 watts max. I'll let u all know the outcome.

We're going to have HALO tournaments on long drives! :wink:

Thanks for the help guys... I went with the Lightning Audio inverter, 150w continuous, 250w(?) max. I'll let u know how it works out.

how much did that cost you?

I found a dealer on Ebay that sold it for $26 + s/h. Sounddomain.com had it for $42. I went to a place in the sounddomain website where it says "we will beat any online dealers price by 105%"... entered the link for them and they responded back and gave it to me for like $23 + s/h. So tecnically I got it from Sounddomain.com

If you want the link to the origional dealer let me know and I'll dig it up :wink:

here is a current auction on Ebay for it: $17 + s/h

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32814&item=5708823529&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

400w, wow :shock: .I was afraid to go that high with our crappybattery. Its nice to know it can handle that much if needed.

how much was the shipping from sound domain? that shipping charge on the link you posted is outrageous!

yeah, thats why I didnt want to get it from them. Sounddomain was only like $6, its a great deal.