Directly from the car battery / the existing car radio supply. As I 
integrated a Class-D amplifier instead of a Class-AB which is normally 
built-into existing car radios, I can get more audio output power from the 
same current consumption, e.g. a 10A current supply will give me ~120W 
audio output power, a 15A current supply up to 175W.
But remember: Normally you don't need these high output power for a longer 
period (nobody listens to white noise or sinewaves for a longer period of 
time) - music is normally 10 times lower in terms of energy density.

Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013 18:27:43 UTC schrieb lisarden:
>
> Sebastian how do you feed the analog amplifier? 150W is damn a lot
> 04 дек. 2013 г. 20:27 пользователь "cmicali" 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> написал:
>
>> Very cool project sebastian - would definitely be interested in 
>> purchasing a cape and checkout out the firmware.
>>
>> -c
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 3:39:20 PM UTC-5, Sebastian Wendt wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I have just received first sample boards of my CarStreamer cape for 
>>> Beaglebone.
>>> CarStreamer includes:
>>>
>>> 4x50W(RMS) Class-D Audio Amplifier (FDA450) connected to McASP0 and I2C
>>> Stereo Audio Codec with 2x LineOut, 2x LineIn and 1x Mic In 
>>> (TLV320AIC3104)
>>> FM/DAB receiver circuit (with RDS support, ...) connected to McASP1 and 
>>> UART
>>> 5V 3A Step-Down Power Supply
>>> Infrared Remote Control receiver
>>>
>>> My plan is to use it as Car Radio replacement in my classic cars, so I 
>>> can have high fidelity audio playback and latest media connectivity (via 
>>> USB, SD-Card and Bluetooth) without destroying the look of my dashboard 
>>> with one of these ugly aftermarket car radios.
>>> But of course the cape can also be used to extend your BeagleBone to a 
>>> powerful home hifi system.
>>>
>>> The user interface is displayed on my Smartphone (I have started to 
>>> develop an Android App for this based on Qt for Android which already works 
>>> quite well) and I can benefit from, the phone's Navigation and voice 
>>> recognition feature.
>>> Of course I can use CarStreamer as Hands-Free Telephony system with 
>>> integrated Echo Cancellation and Noise Reduction feature.
>>> The hardware was designed according to Automotive OEMs requirements, so 
>>> should very reliable and ruggedized. 
>>>
>>> Carstreamer firmware is based on kernel 3.8 with an extension to the 
>>> existing device tree.
>>> The main SW is written using the Qt framework for the application part 
>>> and the audio framework is using PulseAudio. I have written a Plugin that 
>>> integrates a powerful Audio Equalizing scheme incl. standard filters such 
>>> as Bass, Mid, Treble, Graphics EQs but also Speaker Frequency Gain 
>>> correction, Dynamic Bass boost and Limiters.
>>> It also integrates the EC/NR for Telephony and handles things like 
>>> sample rate conversion and Bluetooth AADP audio.
>>> Next step for the Application is to integrate a Media Parser and 
>>> Playback Engine for SD and USB media (any recommendations for 
>>> libs/frameworks from your side) ?
>>>
>>> If anybody is interested in working on this project (the Android app or 
>>> the Linux firmware) or on sample boards, please let me know.
>>> If am planning to release schematics and gerber files as soon as I have 
>>> verified all parts of the boards.
>>>
>>> Currently more or less all peripherals of the Cape are working as 
>>> expected (so yes, I can hear DAB radio stations through the speaker outputs 
>>> of the Class-D amp :-)) but I had to integrate some tweaks and patches to 
>>> the 3.8 kernel (e.g. enabling multi-serializer support on the McASP).
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any suggestions / proposals for 
>>> enhancements or if you wish to know more about it.
>>> I am really planning to release the cape hardware and a aluminium 
>>> extrusion housing as complete product in Q3/2014.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>>
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