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Glad to help with info. Please note that the German service manuals will not be the same exact circuits as the USA models. All stereo equipment is made for a specific region. For example Sharp USA would offer a model xyzHC where Sharp EU would have xyzHQ or some such thing. Some things to remember about this practice, parts, manuals are different. From the obvious wall voltage difference 220@50hz vs 110@60hz, tuning bands of the radio and even face plates having the word volume in different languages. There may be other subtle but very real differences in the fitment of volume controls or the like. Circuit boards may be totally different as well as features of the equipment. There is also a practice of selling things called "Gray Market Goods" where a importer buys say a walkman from Toshiba AU and sells them in the USA. It then breaks and you take it in for warranty and they tell you it can't be fixed because they can't get the parts it needs from Toshiba USA because they don't sell them. Germans like to tinker on things themselves, hence the number of $40.00 service manuals on-line at private websites. Isn't consumer electronics a fun thing to talk about! Sharp Corporation (シャープ株式会社, Shāpu Kabushiki-gaisha?) ((TYO: 6753) is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 54,000 people worldwide as of October 31, 2009. The company was founded in September 1912. It takes its name from one of its founder's first inventions, the Ever-Sharp mechanical pencil, which was invented by Tokuji Hayakawa (早川 徳次) in 1915. Since then it has developed into one of the leading electronics companies in the world. As a semiconductor maker, Sharp is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and among the Top 100 R&D Spenders in a list published by IEEE Spectrum magazine. It gained public awareness in the United Kingdom when it sponsored Manchester United F.C. from 1982 to 2000, which was a period of great success for the club. Sharp took a controlling stake in Pioneer Corporation in 2007. On 25 June 2009, they agreed to form a joint venture with Pioneer on their optical business to be called "Pioneer Digital Design and Manufacturing Corporation".[1]

That would be peak watts for the speakers. They are bass reflex speakers as well which means they are not high compliance. But you can do some interesting things by changing the length of the tubes thereby changing the bass effect for the speaker. The Amp was 150 watts per channel, 300 total, probably peak watts as well. Also all the equipment is Japanese as well which does make a difference as their amps worked with voltage amplification as a principal design. Smaller transformers less shipping on the big boat to get here. This is why the numbers game was being played. Very typical for the day. Crown amps are another thing altogether. No transistors for outputs, they use MOSFETS. Another animal altogether, voltage and amperage! If you go with the Crown I predict a pile of sawdust and magnets in your future. If you add all the other stuff you are talking about as well perhaps you want to go with something like this just to start. http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/products/pa_systems/index.html Not bad bang for the buck and it's portable.

Without getting too technical here I would like to point out a couple of things. All watts are not created equally. Most car amp mfg's lie about their ratings. A little simple math proves this watts(P)=volts(E) x amps(I) A 1000 watt car amp would draw 83.33333 amps at 12 volts. How long did you say you could use that and still start the car/not have a fire? There are peak watts, peak to peak watts, RMS watts, RMS continuous -1 channel driven -both channels driven, continuous sine, peak music power watts just to name a few. The exact same amp might have ratings from 10 to 1400 watts by using nothing more than a calculator. Now lets add to the mix that music is not a continuous waveform with a continuous power factor. Then we add that there are peak demands, (usually called headroom on an amp) that all go into the mix of what is a watt? Bottom line is don't get to hung up on how many watts a thing is, it doesn't matter in any real sense of the word as it doesn't have any real definition. Lets instead look at it backwards. How big is the garage you wish to fill with music? Even a cheesy old home stereo Fisher 100 watt amp from the 90's will rock out your average garage and you can find them at garage sales for $20.00. Keep in mind a 100 watt amp is really two 50 watt amps, right and left. Again you are being lied too. 400 watt quad amp, um no. 4 100 watt amps or worse. Speakers are usually about 8 ohms and also rated in watts as well. See above for what is a watt. Realize you are again being lied to. There is no way on Gods green earth those old speakers you have can really handle 1000 watts even if it says so on the back. Speakers that can handle 1000 watts are found at concerts, not your garage. After a second look at your sharp speakers in the picture if they can handle more than 35watts I'd be surprised. To run all 4 speakers you can wire them in series which will increase the power handling and go easier on your amp. Just go from the + of the amp to the + of the first speaker and then from the - of that speaker to the plus of the next one and then the - of that to the - on the amp Remember 8 ohms in parallel with 8 ohms is 4 ohms. By cutting the resistance by half you double the current. Which will overload most amps and let the smoke out. (Why your old amp kicked it) 8 ohms in series with 8 ohms is 16 ohms wich cuts your amps in half saving the smoke inside your amp for another day. Now back to your original question, Q: Can you use a PC power supply to run car stereo equipment. A: Yes! Why you would want to eludes me. Something about having to make a bunch of custom cables just to connect everything together comes to mind. But an old CB radio power converter 120 to 12 to run a car stereo FM/CD/Cassette/8-Track with the line out RCA jacks hooked to an old Fisher amp running a couple of old house speakers does sound like a rocking garage.

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Where to start….. Going from 120v to 12v to use a car stereo amp in your garage is not a good idea. You will be converting one thing to another and be loosing power in the conversion. It can be done but there are built in problems with the idea for a high demand system. Running an old car stereo through those used Jensen tri-axial speakers you got from the old chevy will work just fine. But that is not your design goal. A 120v amplifier takes the 120 and splits it to two 60 volt rails and uses these to power the speakers at the final drive stage. This will give you the most total power to get to the speakers. A 12v system does not split the voltage this way and instead tries to use amperage to make up for the loss of voltage swing (-60v to +60v) this will fry your little power converter in short order with high power use. With that said, if you have 120 power available, use a 120 power amp. Good names have already been mentioned for that. DO NOT WIRE YOUR SPEAKERS IN PARALEL!!! Unless the amp will handle it this is a fast way to let the smoke out of the amp. However you could consider using a 12v supply to run a car stereo head end and wire it to the power amp. Just use the pre-out jacks on the car stereo to the input jacks on the amp. Maybe save a couple of bucks this way.

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