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BFL13
Explorer II
Dec 05, 2015

The Big and Small Inverter Scam UPDATE-Tested.

Updated 7 Dec-- Not that this is picking a fight or anything :) I went with the story that you should have a big inverter for the big things and a small inverter for the small things for a few y...
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pnichols
Explorer II
Dec 09, 2015
To simplify (I think):

Does it take less battey power to run a 19V DC TV off an inverter or to power it off a 12V to 19V DC-DC converter brick?

P.S. and BTW, I'm not sure that all flat panel TVs use ~19V DC for internal power. Maybe some of them are ~12V DC internally ... which means in this case that one could just power them direcly off an RV's 12V DC receptacle.

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