Amplifier Take 17 Volts?

[calvin_115]

I have a Sony Xplod XM-D9001GTR shipping to my house soon. I'll be using it to power two premier 1207 12's in my bedroom.. I also have three computer psu's which two have already been dead for some unknown reason (not doa).

So a friend of mine says I can use the psus series-parallel the 5volt and the 12v rails together adding to 17 volts. So, can the xplod handel it? Or it'll just fry?

And this might be a noob question but I'm new here lol.

Btw don't tell me the amp is overrated as it is not. It's CEA-2006 Compliant heh .

[Torres]

yeah newer sony amps are CEA compliant. but no...i would not put them on 17 volts anyday.

[Boon]

1. Computer PSU will never supply enough current for a decent sized amp... unless it's a PCP&C Turbo 1kw or something...

2. How do you plan to wire it to get 17v? Computer PSUs have a shared ground for a start, so you can't series the rails... the only way to do it would be to use the -5v rail (if your PSU has one) as the ground to get 17v but then you get maybe 0.5A tops.

[calvin_115]

1. Computer PSU will never supply enough current for a decent sized amp... unless it's a PCP&C Turbo 1kw or something...

2. How do you plan to wire it to get 17v? Computer PSUs have a shared ground for a start, so you can't series the rails... the only way to do it would be to use the -5v rail (if your PSU has one) as the ground to get 17v but then you get maybe 0.5A tops.

-12v + 5v but yeah I'm going to just use 6 12v rails in total (3 psu's) to power the amplifier.

I've seen on YouTube some dude powering a 15" kicker l7 in his room with an alpine 1000wrms amp with three cheapo psus. And I have done something similar in the pass with a rf p2 and an infinity amp. It worked perfect but I had a shit box which isn't even MDF..