Increasing battery capacity
Is there anything else required to installing 2 6 volt deep cycle batteries other than just removing my old battery, and making sure the 2 new ones are wired in series correctly? Will my current char...
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Artsville wrote:
I am switching to 6v batteries also. I have a question along the lines of the small 12v inverter for the tv. How much power does the HD Tv antenna take up while running the tv? Could I watch 2hrs of tv before bed without crushing my batteries? I will have a method to recharge next day.
Thanks
Modern LCD TVs use maybe 25-50 watts. An antenna amplifier would use a couple watts maximum. (There's no such thing as an HDTV antenna as such; it's just an antenna, receiving signals that happen to be HTDV or at least digital TV broadcasts.)
You could watch TV all night without crushing your batteries, assuming there was nothing else all that significant using power. A couple of hours should not be a problem under nearly any circumstance.
