On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 11:14 AM, Larry Chase wrote: > The idea was to use the external amp while driving and to turn it off > and just use the head unit's internal amp when camping. > > The reason being to minimize power consumption when camping. > > However the Stereo Guy .... tells me this really isn't feasible. > > That it would be super expensive and complex to design a system with > this capability. > > Any other thoughts? That was more or less the idea presented to me by my Stereo shop. The quote was $11,000. (This was for a DVD player, CD Changer, Dash mounted (not in-dash however) LCD, speakers and amps.) I decided that was too expensive to risk getting it stolen. |
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