Battery power TV use
We are going to spend one night on a parking lot dry camping on our way to Gulf Shores. My question..What is the best way to run a regular TV in the bedroom on battery power? We are in a fifth wheel with no generator.
Forum Discussion
- An inverter.
- 12 Volt TV set.
- if your tv is 120v
then you either buy a small inverter or you buy a new 12v TV,
my choice is buy the inverter
but for one night, couldn't you read a book, watch movie on laptop, or other mobile device
call it an early night and get some sleep
these are options do NOT require the inverter, provided they have good charged batteries - Small inverter.
look on TV for wattage draw. Get a small inverter that has about twice the wattage of the TV so that if you need to run VCR/DVD player or sat dish you can. - Hi,
A Samlex pure sine wave inverter. 300 watts will be plenty. It is a nice addition for charging items such as cell phones and laptops. - There's no best way, the ONLY way is with an inverter.
- How much viewing time would you get out of two (2) 6V fully charged?
Cant one put on an isolator on the truck and re-charge the batteries -- how long would you need to run the truck to fully recharge both batts? - Somebody has to say it..... just read a book :)
- Guess you just don't get the purpose of these sites do ya - maybe you shouldn't renew
- I have two TV's in my bedroom (one doubles as a computer monitor)
One can run on 12 volt direct off a handy 12 volt outlet I installed (Radio Shack sells cords for the job if your TV did not come with one)
And the other runs off the Inverter (In my case a 2000 watt true sine wave but you can get by with one of the smaller ones, like a 100 watt plug in job though those tend to be MSW and may interfere with weak signal reception).
Direct power is more efficient
