Wall mounted flat screen tvs for boats 240v/12v

<u>You</u> should be sailing because <u>I</u> sail to get away from all that rubbish. <u>You</u> should fit the pigeon hole <u>I</u> have created for what sailing is all about. What <u>you</u> do on board <u>your</u> boat is my business actually!
 
Sorry bout that, just thought I should get it out of the way first..

We have a small 12v LCD television, 8" which is great for us, though they have recently upgraded to a 10" model. Sat on the saloon table it is plenty big enough and uses very little power from the batteries, the difference in consumption between our 8" set and the 15" domestic sets is horrific.

To watch a film we will usually bring out the laptop. Both these screens are packed away at sea, unless it is a boring passage and the watch (me) wants to see the news or similar, but I got told off once for watching telly at sea.

The options with a smaller set of being able to drag it into the cockpit, saloon or cabin or as now on my desk are enormous. Have been known to take it in the car, relieves boredom when sat in a queue trying to leave Oulton park etc.

Basically, I just like the idea of being able to pack it away safely when it is out of use. Though this also means messing around plugging it in and out regularly and must be adding wear and tear to the cables.

To answer your question, the technology seems robust enough to take the odd knock, domestic sets use too much power for off pontoon use, look after the screen, if wall mounting build a cover for it or you will be cleaning it every day. If wall mounting screw it down tight, it will be a rattle that kills it not the motion of the boat..

EDIT> Do not run off a cheapo inverter.
 
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif wasn't going to say a word ......

Actually quite keen to get a flatscreen running off 12volts myself, to use as a monitor on the laptop for nav purposes. Might even choose to watch a DVD from time to time.
 
Oh ok will do and all that
But why not cheapo £ 89 quid inverter to run tv from dixons or somewhere with built in dvd down the side
The other option is a £ 500 12v tv/dvd but im sure someone was saying his screen kept dissappering and he would only get sound
the one weve got is a roadstar jobby and its cr*p try getting 4 of you round that mind you we did see the english beat the frogs in the rugby so its paid for itself
 
cheapo is probably not fair. But many television and actually lots of products recommend using a pure sine wave inverter rather than the modified sine wave that the cheap ones kick out.

OTOH, as most LCD televisions have a brick out the back to run off DC, you should not use an inverter at all. There is no reason why you can't use a laptop power supply if over 12V DC needed, though as said, some of these televisions are power hungry, but then some high end laptops are too so you should be able to power from the batteries.

Can't argue with your big televisions are more comfortable to watch, it is a compromise init, if I spent most of my time on a pontoon with power I may even get a bigger unit and stick it on the bulkhead, but that does not help when at anchor...

Dad's army looks good on my little telly so that does for me for now..
 
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Nothing runs on 12v AC, has to be DC to work off batteries.

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On the contrary, my computer speaker bass box runs on 12v AC, damn annoying as I plugged the 12v AC power supply into my scanner once by accident and fried it, now cable has big label on it saying NO!

Can't think of anything else right now that uses a small AC..
 
If you see a TV running as a PC Monitor - you'll understand why I say it's cr*p ...
 
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Nothing runs on 12v AC, has to be DC to work off batteries.

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On the contrary, my computer speaker bass box runs on 12v AC, damn annoying as I plugged the 12v AC power supply into my scanner once by accident and fried it, now cable has big label on it saying NO!

Can't think of anything else right now that uses a small AC..

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Funny that. I just knew when I was typing that point, that some smart ar$e would immediately come back and tell me about a 12v AC device ..... just didnt know which one.
 
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If you see a TV running as a PC Monitor - you'll understand why I say it's cr*p ...

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It depends if it is a HD ready set that is a monitor converted to be an LCD television you're wrong. You're right in RGB mode as a monitor a television is rubbish, it is going back in time to home computers in old colour portables.

But modern LCD HD televisions will show a crisp and clean resolution as a computer monitor, but they must be SVGA and have a separate mode, they should also run at 60Hz minimum, not 25 like a telly, hence the flicker, yes, my, grammar is failing .... . To labour the point, they are actually a monitor not a TV.
 
Swallow your pride and knock on the hull of a MoBo who will have a 32 inch flat screen tv running off the generator.

Take a bottle of wine and you will be most welcome, and then drink several bottles of MoBo's wine.

Entante cordial in the making.
 
What is it with us boaties, why do we have to complicate things. Go into Comit or wherever buy an LCD tv and dvd combined, just make sure it runs on 240v and 12v then pop into Maplin pick up a caravan satalite kit (also 12v ) connect to battery, view hundreds of chanels, simple ! Mine is a 19" wired through a switch and fuse straight onto battery, cost this year aprox £300 tv, £69 satalite kit, mounted on bulkhead no probs, job done. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Hi Dogwatch, I have to admit to being in a marina most of the time whilest watching tv or dvd but tv is only rated at about 1 amp, I do have 420 ah capacity though. No probs over weekend sailing and mooring.
 
I only mention it as it was my first plan when looking at flat screens.. I was shocked at the power consumption of the 14" portables I looked at, some where pulling up to 5 amps from the DC side of the power supply.

You could happily flatten the domestics watching on a miserable sunday without backup.
 
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