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DrewE
Mar 07, 2019Explorer III
enblethen wrote:
Look at the power plate on the TV in question. Get an inverter at least 70 per cent of this for TV alone. If you have other devices such as DVD player add it's wattage.
My guess it would be around 300 watts total for continuous rating of inverter.
For a modern LCD or LED TV, the power consumption will be well less than that, maybe around 35W or so for moderately sized units. CRT TVs (and doubly so plasma TVs) are power hogs in comparison.
Incidentally, an LED TV is generally just a LCD TV with LEDs for the backlight rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamps.
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