Connect a Car Stereo for House Use With a Psu

Did you know that you don't need to buy a stereo specifically for home use? You can use your car stereo. Follow these steps to safely connect your car stereo to your home power supply.

Steps

On the PSU

  1. Disconnect all power from PSU.
  2. Depending on year and model of PSU, there may have different color wires. on my PSU, there are black,blue,yellow,orange,red and green
  3. Try to eliminate blue orange, red and green,
  4. Now all the yellow wires using the wire strippers, strip them approximately {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}}.
  5. Twist all yellow cords together,
  6. Now do the same procedure for the black wires.

On Stereo

  1. Strip black, red, and yellow wires.
  2. Now twist yellow and red wires together.
  3. Connect both yellow and red wires to the psu (YELLOW!) wire
  4. Connect black wire with black on psu
  5. Leave switch off and plug power supply in outlet.



Things You'll Need

  • power supply unit "psu" 12volts
  • car stereo (any brand)
  • wire connectors
  • wire strippers

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