Battery Question ; time watching TV
I know very little about electricity...... I do a lot of car camping and want to run my 35" flat screen TV and DVD player by using a 12v deep cell battery with a 300 watt inverter and NOT a gas gener...
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Since I've often done something similar with a computer+monitor+sat dish+receiver, I can tell you these time estimates are about right. So I want to commend the well-reasoned and informative response from RJ, which caught many of us off guard!
For the OP, I would add that your battery life is roughly equivilent to the weight of your batteries. There is no lighter weight, easier way to do what you are doing. If you don't care about the battery you can drain it completely empty but only do that a few times before you kill it dead. This is why the calculations here figure on you using only half the capacity.
If you buy more expensive "AGM" batteries you can drain them deeper without harming them. They also do not give off deadly gas when being charged or overheated, so they are safer.
If you want an easy+simple but expensive option for doing this, google "goal zero". I use one of these when I'm tent/car camping and am very happy with it.
For the OP, I would add that your battery life is roughly equivilent to the weight of your batteries. There is no lighter weight, easier way to do what you are doing. If you don't care about the battery you can drain it completely empty but only do that a few times before you kill it dead. This is why the calculations here figure on you using only half the capacity.
If you buy more expensive "AGM" batteries you can drain them deeper without harming them. They also do not give off deadly gas when being charged or overheated, so they are safer.
If you want an easy+simple but expensive option for doing this, google "goal zero". I use one of these when I'm tent/car camping and am very happy with it.
