Installing Plexi in a Pickup truck or Big Rig

mightymike · Post by **mightymike** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:17 am

Trick my Truck for Guitarists!

-In the pickup truck for the next time one of those
young wipper snappers with their boom boxes pulls up along side.
All you hear is the bass and drums anyways.
Can you say funk backing track?
Can't beat em ,join em, especially if it a good beat.
It'll be like a 3 piece funk rock band.

Also if any of us starts up an amp builders club, we could meet like car clubs do, and not need an outlet to plug in, or generator.

-In the Big Rig if my poor butt ends up driving Lower 48 states and Canada again.

The thing is, how much power do you need?
Would you have to get a 2nd or larger alternator installed
on the Pickup,and extra batteries? The pickup is a 98 Ford F150 Ext Flareside with a 4.6, that already has the upraded alternator for the towing package.
There were 2 alternaters you could get when I ordered that truck.

The big truck probably has enough batteries and juice to handle it.
But what size inverter would I need to handle a friggin Plexi?

I probably already have enough Love's points on my fuel card to get their best inverter at not have fork out any cash. (I think it's 2000 watt) I was going to get a new CB with those points, but this might be more fun.

johniss0001 · Post by **johniss0001** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:37 pm

mate this is a great idea i would love to see it and hear it but you would need to do something about the amount of volume so you don't deafen yourself or damage the car windows.

carson5150 · Post by **carson5150** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:44 pm

I've actually put a lot of thought into doing something like this, lol. Just pull up in a parking lot, get out, plug in, and let er rip.

ampSnob · Post by **ampSnob** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:49 am

The ultimate battery powered amp! Happens to have an automobile attached to drive it around and recharge the battery! I like it.

You may need to get an inverter that puts out a decent sine wave. A lot of those cheapo ones will put out square or modified sine wave which isn't much better - still looks like a bunch of trapezoids on a scope. Non sine wave power may give you a lot of weird buzz as technically the non sine wave charachteristics are really bad harmonic distortion. It may not filter out correctly as the power transformer is converting a lot more than just 60hz. Try it if you can before spending any money on one.

Good sine wave inverters are available from solar panel dealers.