I have read these various posts with considerable interest as we are also wishing to buy a 15" LCD TV for a motorhome. As we will not receive our motorhome until the end of March we are complete novices in this area, so I wonder if some of you could help.
1. Do I gather that even those LCD TVs sold for use with motorhomes (Manhattan, Sharp) have to be adapted to 240V (and back to 12V within the set) to overcome variable voltages from the leisure battery?
2. We plan to have a small inverter (not pure sinewave), mainly for recharging things. Am I right in deducing that this would run a 240V LCD TV quite adequately?
I was interested in the solution suggested by BB E695 that a small laptop could do a number of jobs. Presumably it would not care about what sort of inverter is used as the 240V is only recharging the battery. If BB E695 picks this up perhaps they could let me know:
3. How quickly does the laptop boot up to TV? if it is like our computer at home we would miss a lot of weather forecasts! But perhaps the usual bootup procedures are bypassed if using it as a TV?
4. Which model do you recommend and where did you purchase it? We are also in Northern Ireland so your advice could be very relevant!
5. How well do you find that the GPS works in NI. In demonstrations most of them seem rather rudimentary over here, but perhaps you have found a version that can cope???
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