On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 11:14 AM, Larry Chase wrote:

> The idea was to use the external amp while driving and to turn it off
> and just use the head unit's internal amp when camping.
>
> The reason being to minimize power consumption when camping.
>
> However the Stereo Guy .... tells me this really isn't feasible.
>
> That it would be super expensive and complex to design a system with
> this capability.
>
> Any other thoughts?

That was more or less the idea presented to me by my Stereo shop. The
quote was $11,000. (This was for a DVD player, CD Changer, Dash mounted
(not in-dash however) LCD,  speakers and amps.) I decided that was too
expensive to risk getting it stolen.