{"id":438,"date":"2012-03-03T06:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-03-03T06:12:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T06:12:05","slug":"repurpose-an-amp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Repurpose an amp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About ten years ago I built an <a href=\"http:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=40\">amplifier<\/a> for my Kia Rio. I noticed it came with speakers even though I didn&#8217;t buy a model with a radio. My amp was a simple circuit that came pre-assembled, required 12 volts and took the signal from my iPod and feed it to the speakers with 22 watts of power.<\/p>\n<p>About two years ago I got rid of that car. But I kept the amp. Today in my new house I am using that amp to power my computer speakers. I am using a pair of Optimus Pro 74V (26-2048). They sound great and can get quite loud with my little amp.<\/p>\n<p>When I first assembled the amp for home use I connected a 12 volt wall wart power suppily (273-1652D) directly to the circuit. But there was a 60hz hum. I though the DC power coming from the wall wart would be very clean, but I was wrong. I then feed the power thru the noise reducer I used while it was powered in the car. It took care of the noise very well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About ten years ago I built an amplifier for my Kia Rio. I noticed it came with speakers even though I didn&#8217;t buy a model with a radio. My amp was a simple circuit that came pre-assembled, required 12 volts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}