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John___Angela
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Oct 15, 2013

Interesting results of power use audit when dry camping.

So we have been dry camping for about a week in fairly lousy and cold weather (read below freezing every night. So as we have to be here for a few more days I decided to see what sucks the most power...
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John___Angela
Explorer
Oct 16, 2013
ken white wrote:
KJINTF wrote:
Get rid of that CCFL LCD TV and get a LED/LCD TV or a OLED TV you will save 70% in power consumption.

Please do not toss it in the trash


Yep, my Samsung 32" LED TV uses about 60 Watts, which really helps if I want to use it while remote camping.


Well you never know. Maybe Santa will bring a 36 inch LED this year. :). Probably not till next year though. I figure it's probably easier to justify at the 5 or 6 year point. :).

Thanks to Ninerbikes for the cool data. Kudos.

John

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