captinharry
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need to pick up a battery operated portable TV to have for power outages, emergencies, any suggestions as to brands or where to buy.
Thanks for any information
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Biggziff
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The small (19 & 23) Vizio LED TVs use a 12 volt power supply. You can run them from a 12 volt battery.
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2oldman
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Any TV is battery operated if you have an inverter.
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brobox
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I found these on Google n-US fficial&client=firefox-a">12 V TV
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Biggziff
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2oldman wrote:Any TV is battery operated if you have an inverter.
Yep, but the inverter has overhead which will cause a battery to drain faster than the same TV running off the battery alone.
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captinharry
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was thinking about a 7 or 9" portable that would run on internal batteries, would like it to be truely portable,lots on amazon but reviews very mixed, hoped to get some input from owners as to their experience,
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adabob
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CamperPaul thanks for your tips, I had the 19" Vizio and it worked well off 12VDC, used very little power with the LED's. I upgraded to the 22" version which I felt was a better buy, only slightly more power drain and full 1080i plus no chrome ring around the frame. They also make a 23"version as well all 3 run on 12 volts. By the way Radio Shack sells a 12vdc cord with changeable tips that fit all three Vizio's they all use the same brick or AC box.
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adabob
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I have a Vizo The M190MV RazorLED™ LCD HDTV, got it at Costco for about $200.
It is powered by a AC brick that puts out 12v DC 4.5 amps, is it OK to use a cigarette lighter plug cord and plug it directly into the TV? Car batteries have always confused me, I know they're 12volts but do the amps needed by the TV have anything to do with the amps put out by the battery? Just worried a 40 amp 12 volt battery going into a 4.5 amp TV might short out the TV? Is this possible?
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adabob wrote:I have a Vizo The M190MV RazorLED™ LCD HDTV, got it at Costco for about $200.
It is powered by a AC brick that puts out 12v DC 4.5 amps, is it OK to use a cigarette lighter plug cord and plug it directly into the TV?
I have the same set and use it on 12V battery when I'm boondocking; the set actually draws 3½ Amps from the 12 Volt battery.
Don't worry about the battery's current rating damaging the TV set; IT WON'T.
The 40 Amp-Hour battery will run the TV set for about 5 hours.
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If you have a laptop, you're halfway there. Just pick up a tuner package like WinTV.
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