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Kickaha
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2007-02-09, 22:26

One I'm still proud of, 18 years later... I had an old '76 Jeep Cherokee in high school that had no radio. Not even a frickin' AM deck. I ended up blowing $400 on a JVC boombox that had AM/FM/SW, a tape deck, subwoofer, a *CD player* (woo for 1989, man), and detachable speakers. The speaker went in the back seat, the main unit between the front seats, and we were ready to ROCK man!

Except it ate batteries like Sally Struthers goes through Snickers. D batteries. Big honkin' D batteries. *8* D batteries.

Well, I realized pretty quickly that 8 batteries in series * 1.5V = 12V. Awfully close to the 12V in the car.

$1.29 for a bridge rectifier at Radio Shack, some wooden doweling the same diameter as a D battery, the power cord from an old lamp, and a cigarette lighter adapter port later, and I had power from the Jeep for it. I ran it like that for a couple of years.

Hell, I still have the boombox *and* the power adapter.

RAWK!

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