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Q: Make an amplifier battery powered?
Hi. I want to purchase a really nice acoustic amp, for street performance.
I've tried all the various busker amps available, the Crate Taxi, the Fender Amp-Can, but unfortunately they're not good enough for the sort of stuff I want to do. There's the AER Compact Mobile, which is good enough, but far too expensive IMO. I'm considering the Roland AC-60 http://www.roland.com/products/en/AC-60/index.html Unfortunately, it's not battery powered. Is my only option, therefore, to carry around a big car battery and an inverter? Somebody told me that on some amps you can get technician to bypass the power supply, so you can run it off batteries. Is that plausible? -- token signature |
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"a.busker" wrote in message ... Hi. I want to purchase a really nice acoustic amp, for street performance. Somebody told me that on some amps you can get technician to bypass the power supply, so you can run it off batteries. Is that plausible? No problem. Batteries can power almost any amplifier. Is it practical? Suppose a high-power audio amp needs +/- 48 volts. Eight 12-V Gel Cells in series (with a center tap) will work. Again, is it practical? The connection is basic. Run the center tap of the series batteries to ground, and plus to plus, and minus to minus and (to be on the safe side) disconnect the power supply (will probably require a technician). |
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Q: Make an amplifier battery powered?
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:53:25 +0930, a.busker wrote:
Hi. I want to purchase a really nice acoustic amp, for street performance. Somebody told me that on some amps you can get technician to bypass the power supply, so you can run it off batteries. Is that plausible? Not really unless the amp has a low output or a 1 ohm speaker system. 12 volts isn't enough to produce the power levels you'll need. Auto subwoofer amps use a step-up power supply. I have one here extracted from a 400W car subwoofer amp. The power supply MOSFETs had been blown up by some ignorant modifications to the amp, but that wasn't hard to fix. It uses a TL494 SMPS chip, as many computer power supplies used to. Anyhow, the two pairs of output MOSFETs in the SMPS drive a toroidal transformer in push-pull, with two secondary windings of 2:1 ratio, which produces an output after rectification of +-25 volts from a 13.8 volt input. I suspect that the amp you like differs only from the ones you don't simply by the quality of the speakers - nothing to do with the amp at all. Consider buying a speaker you like, and driving it from a car sub amp on your battery. Clifford Heath. |
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Terryc wrote:
draw. If I can't get the amp modified to run on DC, that sounds like the only option. Well, one that runs directly off the battery would be best as you are saving the losses of converting 12V to 240V, then back down again inside the amp. Is it the sort of thing that's plausible though? What kind of technical difficulties are there in getting an converted to run on DC? I wouldn't have the faintest idea. I ran into a busker in Melbourne who similar amp. He was running it off of some special little battery that he said was used by scuba divers, going through an inverter. It was tiny! Do you have any idea what kind of battery that would be? No idea, but I'll bet it cost him a lot in replacement batteries. The advantage of deep discharge lead acid batteries is that if treated properly, they last a decade easily. The disadvantage is the weight and the fact that they were ot designed to play ball games with. Another approach might be to outline exactly what is wrong with each of the amplifiers that you have tried and see what polite suggestions are returned. Well seeing as you asked..... I'm a classical guitarist, and as such I'm aiming for clarity of sound. I've tried four amps in my time as a street performer: the Ashton BSK158 (15 watt output), Fender Amp Can (10 W), Roland Microcube (5W) and the Crate Taxi 30 (30 watt). The Crate is the latest and clearly the most powerful. But even that, when I get to a level of volume that I can be heard 10 metres away in a crowded shopping strip, with all sorts of audio interference, including hundreds of people talking in the immediate vicinity, spruikers, piped music ... then the sound becomes muddy. It's especially noticeable when I'm strumming with my thumb and picking with my fingers at the same time. I met another classical guitarist busker in Sydney who actually had a good sound. Though he had a big 200 watt + JBL powered speaker plugged into a car battery via an inverter. Then there were these other guys I kept running into in Melbourne, who had a slightly more portable option. They were using the AER Compact 60, a nice portable 60w PA accoustic amp, also plugged into big batteries via inverters. Perfectly clear sound they got. http://www.aer-amps.de/Sites/sites_E.../compact60.htm The Roland AC-60 is almost the same thing as the AER Compact 60, except at $800 it's half the price. It has a few stupid design flaws admittedly (for e.g, instead of a kettle plug, it's got a stupid power cord permanantly hanging off the back of it, just ready to unfurl and fall off when you really need to carry it somewhere quickly). But the only real problem with either the Compact or the AC-60, is the issue of having to carry around a big stupid battery and inverter, because you're losing power converting DC to AC, and then back again. It's just inefficient, labor intensive, and wrong. -- token signature |
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a.busker wrote:
I've tried four amps in my time as a street performer: the Ashton BSK158 (15 watt output), Fender Amp Can (10 W), Roland Microcube (5W) and the Crate Taxi 30 (30 watt). Oh I should add that all these amps come battery powered. -- token signature |
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" a.WHINGER " But the only real problem with either the Compact or the AC-60, is the issue of having to carry around a big stupid battery and inverter, because you're losing power converting DC to AC, and then back again. It's just inefficient, labor intensive, and wrong. ** You really are a COLOSSALLY arrogant, know nothing ****** !!!!! Jaycar have very compact inverters for under $50 with 90 % efficiency and low standby consumption ( cat M15102) - it weighs under 1kg. They also have a 12 volt, 18 AH SLA battery for $65 ( cat SB2490 ) - it weighs just over 6 kg. So all up weight = 7 kg. Operating time = about 5-6 hours. Many amps that run from a 12 volt battery have DC-DC inverters INSIDE them - you ASS. ....... Phil |
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Phil Allison wrote:
" a.WHINGER " But the only real problem with either the Compact or the AC-60, is the issue of having to carry around a big stupid battery and inverter, because you're losing power converting DC to AC, and then back again. It's just inefficient, labor intensive, and wrong. ** You really are a COLOSSALLY arrogant, know nothing ****** !!!!! Sounds like the POT calling the KETTLE Black,. again. Jaycar have very compact inverters for under $50 with 90 % efficiency and low standby consumption ( cat M15102) - it weighs under 1kg. They also have a 12 volt, 18 AH SLA battery for $65 ( cat SB2490 ) - it weighs just over 6 kg. So all up weight = 7 kg. Operating time = about 5-6 hours. Many amps that run from a 12 volt battery have DC-DC inverters INSIDE them - you ASS. ...... Phil |
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Q: Make an amplifier battery powered?
a.busker wrote:
Hi. I want to purchase a really nice acoustic amp, for street performance. I've tried all the various busker amps available, the Crate Taxi, the Fender Amp-Can, but unfortunately they're not good enough for the sort of stuff I want to do. There's the AER Compact Mobile, which is good enough, but far too expensive IMO. I'm considering the Roland AC-60 http://www.roland.com/products/en/AC-60/index.html Unfortunately, it's not battery powered. Is my only option, therefore, to carry around a big car battery and an inverter? Somebody told me that on some amps you can get technician to bypass the power supply, so you can run it off batteries. Is that plausible? check out this @ Ebay http://cgi.ebay.ca/400W-Battery-Powe...QQcmdZViewItem |
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"a.busker" wrote in message ... Terryc wrote: But the only real problem with either the Compact or the AC-60, is the issue of having to carry around a big stupid battery and inverter, because you're losing power converting DC to AC, and then back again. It's just inefficient, labor intensive, and wrong. -- token signature For the sort of power demanded there probably isn't much alternative to a big heavy battery (except maybe a portable generator). Many buskers adapt car audio equipment to suit their needs, often a stereo graphic equaliser/BTL booster is easy to modify to fit the job, although hard core customisers who like their "1 note honking bass" use low voltage inverters with split rails (about +50V & -50V) and in car power amplifiers designed for this use. The obvious advantage of the setup is that the voltage isn't being transformed up only to be transformed down again so the conversion losses are minimised. |
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"-=Spudley=-" wrote in message ... Phil Allison wrote: ** You really are a COLOSSALLY arrogant, know nothing ****** !!!!! Sounds like the POT calling the KETTLE Black,. again. Philthy never learned any better having been raised by dingoes! |
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