Run TV on an inverter?

Gdetrailer wrote:
Most TVs marketed as "12V" are junk brands like Jenson, Furrion just to name a couple and are not built with any sort of real quality.

In the past there were a number of better name brands like LG, Samsung, Hitachi, Sony, Vizio, Toshiba and so on which used an external power supply brick which happened to be "12V". Those are very few and far between now days as most manufacturers eventually went to INTERNAL power supplies..

Even IF you could find one of those TVs with a external 12V brick, they were typically limited in size, often only the SMALL TVs of 19" or less which are pretty much impossible to find now days for sale.. Most stores stock 40 plus inch TVs now days and if you want smaller than that you will have to dig around Amazon and order it.

Additionally, folks often do not realize with the TVs with an external 12V power supply that those TVs are designed for COMPUTER "12V" (11.9V-12.1V) and never were designed or intended to operate from a 12V BATTERY which can have voltages from 10.5V up to 15V..

Honestly, running a TV from a inverter is not going to kill you, not going to use a lot more of the battery and are cheap and plentiful to find and buy and you WILL get far better TV than the ones marketed as 12V..

For your needs, a 12v TV may not be a a particularly attractive option. Fair enough.

However . . . I'll say this. A 12v Jensen TV came with our camper new. Been using it for 3 year now. Works great. Very light, very low current draw and no inverter needed. A friend purchased a new 75" Samsung from Costco a few months ago. 15-20 dead pixels, then it died a week later.

My hope is RV manufacturers will push harder for more 12v appliances in the future. Some off-road van manufacturers are starting to use 12v a/c units. Significantly quieter and much more efficient. Throw a 12v microwave into the mix and we'd be awful close to an inverter free camper.