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Thanks Howard. Once again, I am grateful to you for your advice. Once the ride got under way, I cranked the volume up almost as high as it would go. This drained the battery rather quickly, perhaps 45 minutes or so into the ride. I heard the music cutting in and out, so I disconnected power from the system to prevent the battery from fully depleting.
I had been playing "pre-show" music before the ride started at a moderate volume, so perhaps in total I got a total of 1.5 hours out of the battery.
This was not a mistake. I don't believe anyone on the list has tried a Shorai battery yet. I wanted to see what it was made of. Next time I will moderate the volume more. Perhaps at some point I will purchase an additional battery and run it in series (or parallel?) to get more time at a high volume.
When I arrived at a stopping point indoors, I reconnected the system and played music at a lower volume just to make sure everything was still working properly. It was. In fact, I played music at the lower volume for about 5-10 minutes without any cutting in/out, so perhaps I could have extended the party simply by reducing the volume?
For the record, I used the 12v/18aH battery for this ride. It was nice and lightweight as advertised. I also purchased one of their chargers. So far I am pleased with it. The battery probably takes more than 12 hours to fully charge.
Matt== the system sounded good.
You didn't appear to have it on during the ride-- what happened?
Kelly-- I have lots of spare stuff I'm happy to pass along-- you probably don't need to buy anything at all. Send me a friend request.
I don't think it would be arrogant to say that there's more knowledge and experience to be tapped in this group than on all of Instructables.
I'm planning on doing a system like this
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bike-Party-Sound-System-Basic-Rear-...
Even a search for "speakers" will bring up more portable boombox like solutions that you can adhere to your bike when you want.
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