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[mainshiptom]

I have just ordered from www.empiredirect.co.uk a Samsung LW15E33SX for £242, Thanks to AMF !

Should be with me on friday !

Now i have to fight swmbo for an other set for the kitchen? or will this one get as far as the boat?


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[amf]

Glad I could help - have always found them to offer competitve prices and fast delivery (famous last words!).

Cheers

Andrew

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[Talbot]

This is not the same as the set that is on the Samsung site, so presumably this is the last of old stock being sold at a reduced cost. The site has no details of the specifications of this set so is it multi format (pal various and NTSC) , and what is the power requirement?


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[Vara]

Yes it is multi format.I dont know the power reqmt for 15" but the 17" equiv asks for 14v but seems to work on 12v quite happily.
Good set,13 months no probs works incredibly well as monitor as well.

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[mainshiptom]

Andrew

great price and they also called 10 minutes after I placed the order to confirm delivery date !

Thanks again

Tom

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[Talbot]

Sorry to rain on your parade, But you will have to use 230v on this machine as it has an internal power system and no availability for external power adaptor. Dont know if a cheapy square wave invertor will be OK, or whether you will need the more expensive sine wave version.
Apparently these sets are from a batch of abt 10,000 brought in by Samsung from Europe (cause they werent selling there presumably)

The only LCD TV that samsung do that has an external power adaptor, and is multi standard is the LW17N23WX\XEU. and that is £484.26 from the same place

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[PhilF]

I have used a cheapy invertor with my LG flat screen and digibox. Don't know if it does any long term harm, but picture perfect.
Got a generator now, more perfect

PhilF

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[Talbot]

The only way to tell if a square wave invertor/generator will work is knowledge of the internal power system of the device (other than "suck it and see"). If it converts the 230v AC to a DC power, then any invertor is fine. If the device uses ac power, it MAY need a sine wave inverter.

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[mainshiptom]

Mark

I normally use in marina on extrnal power but also have a box of tricks that gives me a lovely 1.5kw of that ac stuff ! I do not think I will use on an anchor or out at sea but you never know, I suppose we can switch the genartor on and have cold beers and hot showers with nice full batteries . sorry I am showing off now !

what is the point of watching anything if we can not have a cold beer?

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[Talbot]

Power supply is rather more important to me as we dont normally stay in a marina. If that one had used external power, I would have bought it, but its back to the drawing board again! Whatever I get will have to be a multi standard version Pal /ntsc etc.

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[Robin]

We have a Bush 15" LCD from Argos about £340 (free for us with Nectar!) which is multi standard (and we have actually used it in France) it has an external power supply box (12v). We can run it from 220v, 220v via an inverter or 12v direct using a small phono type plug connector - we use the same one we had before on a little B&W set. It works fine on all 3 power sources BUT sometimes the pic flutters on 12v, this may be interference from say the fridge or if the battery volts are down (it doesn't do it on 12v if we have 220v shorepower connected) or a combination of both, in practice we run it usually from the inverter and it takes about 3A overall

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