Fordman46

so i had an idea for pumping out music at bonfires and such. I wanna get a pair of waterproof speakers that i will mount underneath my toolbox. If anyone has seen my truck, i have a shorter toolbox that sits on the rails so i have plenty of room to mount them underneath. Was thinking something like these. What else do i need to run speakers? Normally what i do is run it on accessories with the windows down. Looking for a bit louder. If anyone can help with speakers, could you give me any tips that would be great.

BlackThundah

You should look into some boat speakers. They make complete kits that you could probably just wire into your battery. It be like having a complete separate audio system outside of your truck. It might not be that that simple, but boats aren't to complicated. lol If you weren't afraid of cutting your tool box you could flush mount them in there. Just an idea though.

Fordman46

I will look at kits but I want speakers connected to adjustable mounts instead of just the speakers.

Buckshot482

Even if you didnt want to run a wire to your battery and risk draining your battery where it wont start. Buy a small lawn mower battery to hook up to. I plan on doing something simular but mounting the marine radio head inside the toolbox, and getting some wireless speakers to just set on top of the cab. Im just going to find a place to secure the battery inside the toolbox

Fordman46

I was thinking the same thing about a battery but 2 things struck me. How would the battery get charged? I won't wanna have to worry about charging it, which i may forget sometimes and next time i wanna use it, it might be dead. With my truck battery it always gets charged. Also i have ran my music for about 7 hours on the battery blasting though the truck speakers. If anything, I'm always around people that could give me a jump if it did die. or i would start it up for a little bit to charge it, although it would waste gas, i'm banking on it not dieing lol

ibd2328

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Deep Cell battery. And if you are just running coax's off it with a head unit, you arent going to be pulling that much power.

Fordman46

Ill look at it and yeah that's all I'm planning to do

jferg92

Something like this....?

Fordman46

Ya basically what's your exact setup?

Buckshot482

Spend about 40 bucks on a small solar charger, it can charge the battery up while you are using it if you purchase one that makes more power than the radio consumes.