shastagary wrote:
take the tv off the mount and bring it inside and hook it directly to the sat box to see if it works then you will know if its the tv or the connection.
That was my thought. Hook up the supposedly bad TV to a known good working connection at home to verify it's a bad TV.
I never heard of a TV go bad because the compartment it is stored in is too hot. But maybe I will learn something here.
As far as recommending a replacement TV, when it comes time to replace our TV, I hope to find one that operates off 12V. I have seen some smaller TVs that utilize a transformer, like a laptop computer uses. If the operating voltage is not much more than 14V, I would try to power it directly to the house 12V power source instead of what I am doing now, converting 110V to 12V.....a poor use of precious boondocking battery power. Ideally I would like a thin frameless 32" house battery powered edge-lit LED TV that is a power miser. My current 26" TV is a power hog. I know it is a power hog because of the heat it generates.
