Rack Mounted Car Stereo

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[Clinton Mann] sent in how he built a rack mount stereo. I’d normally pass this to the links, but it was so heavily photographed, had a price list, and covered the problems encountered, I couldn’t pass it up. It really is as simple as you think of course the bizarre justification and results video really help sell it. Any other must haves for a data center?

16 thoughts on “Rack Mounted Car Stereo

  1. Heh . . . my dad pulled off this hack about 15 years ago, albeit in a more low-tech fashion. He used an old car stereo, a single deck mount style speaker, an old antenna, and a car battery.

    He used a *cardboard box* to house everything but the battery. Dad used this “boom box” in the garage when working on the car; it sounded great!

  2. working on mine now, its using a jensen CM-75K deck which supports CD and Cassette as well as a cd changer… i rippied it out of my ranger before the insurance got a hold of it after i rolled it… i think my roommate’s cd is still in it.

  3. This project is a lot easier and cheaper then the directions found on the link. All you need is a ac/dc converter you can find them at Walmart, radio shack, everywhere, it needs to be a 12v converter the higher the amps the better. I ended up with a 1300 mil amp converter. Just connect up the positive and ignition wire from the deck to the hot of the converter and the ground to the ground. It’s that simple and it will cost you a lot less too, I picked up mine for 12.99.

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