Hi, Ron and Brian Thanks for your comments, from what I can find it requires 12 volt DC, but the problem now seems to be that it has a 4 pin connector with 2 posotive pins and 2 negative, I rang the help line and asked if it could be connected direct to my 12 volt system and they said it shouldn't be a problem, however i can't fiond one of these 4 pin plugs anywhere or a suitable ready made lead with a 4 pin plug ? any suggestions, oh by the way my invertor is one of the 300 watt units that Maplins were selling for £19.99 about a year ago any thoughts on these would also be welcome
Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Jones To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Direct from the Battery or use Invertor Enodreven at Yahoo wrote: > Hi, > > We have just purchased a new LCD TV and were wondering if it would be > better to make up a cable and connect it direct to the 12 volt boat > system or would it be better to use a small invertor and then use the > 240 volt transformer that came with it ? any suggestions would be > welcome > Tricky. Your 12V supply probably gives 12.0V. You boat will do 14.4ish down to 11ish. You need to know what you TV really wants in terms of voltage stability. I assume the 12V from the power supply is DC and not AC - one of the original reasons for having 50 lines on a TV is that it was easy to use the mains frequency to generate the picture (and that's why there are 60 lines in the US) - having said that, it's not so important as it used to be. Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/893 - Release Date: 7/9/2007 5:22 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
