cavelamb wrote in
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So far, a raw LCD 15 inch display looks best from the point of battery
usage (12 volt DC, 24 watts).

The 15 inch version pulls about 40 watts (!)

The LED displays are almost all 120 vac devices.



I'd like to find:
SVGA input. Other optional inputs are ok,
but the laptop will be the primary source.
16:9 aspect ratio.
1280 x 800 is the native laptop display.
12 volt DC power
1000:1 or better contrast ratio
5 ms or better grey-grey response time.
for a couple of bucks maybe??

Larry???




Well, 40 watts, you wanted help discharging, right?....(c;]

I have two comments that are pet peeves of mine. A boat is a BRIGHT
place to watch TV. Any surface brightly lit radiates LIGHT....duhh...

So, EVERY display on the boat MUST be NON-GLOSSY, NON-REFLECTIVE....so
you're not trying to watch the picture through a damned mirror showing
you YOU and most of the brightly-lit stuff behind you...marina, hatches,
that horrid picture the wife keeps threatening to throw overboard, the
clock on the bulkhead, etc.

THIS is FAR more important than what power it draws. TV is useless if
you can't stand to watch it without waiting for it to get dark outside.

Another issue, on a boat, is "Where are you gonna stow it?" It'd be
nice to have a super 42" beast to watch the movie, but they don't fold
up and stow in the lazerette with the dock lines when you're going to
sea. Oh, they have those stupid swinging mounts that bang the mounted
TV around when you heel over and it slams against the starboard
cabinetry, leaving a gouge, but having a big LCD TV aboard is a real
stowage problem because they're just too big! I wouldn't wanna sleep
with it in the watch berth. So, keep it small, keep it NON GLARE and
keep it LCD. 12-18" LCD high definition TV that runs on 12VDC and has
an XVGA computer input and a NON GLOSSY screen AND NON GLOSSY FRAME
AROUND THE SCREEN (flat black is best!).

That should narrow it down a lot.....



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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?

Larry wrote:
cavelamb wrote in
:

So far, a raw LCD 15 inch display looks best from the point of battery
usage (12 volt DC, 24 watts).

The 15 inch version pulls about 40 watts (!)

The LED displays are almost all 120 vac devices.



I'd like to find:
SVGA input. Other optional inputs are ok,
but the laptop will be the primary source.
16:9 aspect ratio.
1280 x 800 is the native laptop display.
12 volt DC power
1000:1 or better contrast ratio
5 ms or better grey-grey response time.
for a couple of bucks maybe??

Larry???




Well, 40 watts, you wanted help discharging, right?....(c;]

I have two comments that are pet peeves of mine. A boat is a BRIGHT
place to watch TV. Any surface brightly lit radiates LIGHT....duhh...

So, EVERY display on the boat MUST be NON-GLOSSY, NON-REFLECTIVE....so
you're not trying to watch the picture through a damned mirror showing
you YOU and most of the brightly-lit stuff behind you...marina, hatches,
that horrid picture the wife keeps threatening to throw overboard, the
clock on the bulkhead, etc.

THIS is FAR more important than what power it draws. TV is useless if
you can't stand to watch it without waiting for it to get dark outside.

Another issue, on a boat, is "Where are you gonna stow it?" It'd be
nice to have a super 42" beast to watch the movie, but they don't fold
up and stow in the lazerette with the dock lines when you're going to
sea. Oh, they have those stupid swinging mounts that bang the mounted
TV around when you heel over and it slams against the starboard
cabinetry, leaving a gouge, but having a big LCD TV aboard is a real
stowage problem because they're just too big! I wouldn't wanna sleep
with it in the watch berth. So, keep it small, keep it NON GLARE and
keep it LCD. 12-18" LCD high definition TV that runs on 12VDC and has
an XVGA computer input and a NON GLOSSY screen AND NON GLOSSY FRAME
AROUND THE SCREEN (flat black is best!).

That should narrow it down a lot.....




I completely agree about the non reflective screen issue.
I should have included it in the list.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26/
7th pic down...

the screen will fold up under the deck in front of that shelf.
Out of the way, and with a hard cover, should be safe there.

Up there, with a little down angle like you were stretched out
on the bunk, even the mirror surface of my lap top looks great.
All the reflections go elsewhere.

I think 18 inches will be plenty.
But 40 watts! and that's just the display. Doesn't include the
computer or audio amp.

I've got the audio run into the stereo, and the sound is theater
quality - specially in that echo chamber.

I completely agree about the non reflective screen issue.
I should have included it in the list.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26/
7th pic down...

the screen will fold up under the deck in front of that shelf.
Out of the way, and with a hard cover, should be safe there.

Up there, with a little down angle like you were stretched out
on the bunk, even the mirror surface of my lap top looks great.
All the reflections go elsewhere.

I think 18 inches will be plenty.
But 40 watts! and that's just the display. Doesn't include the
computer or audio amp.

I've got the audio run into the stereo, and the sound is theater
quality - specially in that echo chamber.

I've got absolutely nothing to offer for advice, but I like your boat!
Especially the open layout below with no bulkhead and no attemp to create a
seperate v berth. I think this is so much better in a small boat than trying
to cram seating in the salon and having a seperate v.
Cool!

mmc wrote:


I've got absolutely nothing to offer for advice, but I like your boat!
Especially the open layout below with no bulkhead and no attemp to create a
seperate v berth. I think this is so much better in a small boat than trying
to cram seating in the salon and having a seperate v.
Cool!



Why thank you, mmc!

Obviously a person of high intelligence and elegant tastes!


But yeah, I like it too.
One of Frank Butler's better doodles.

The interior space is a result of the 10 feet of beam.
And, as you said, not breaking the space up into little areas.

At first I thought the head took up more room than necessary,
but I've come to like it after a very short time.
And the ladies who have been aboard all approve heartily.
A bit of privacy while attending to those things seems to be important to them.

I tried out the V-berth on a Catalina 27 and 28.
The 30 wasn't too bad, but the others were way too cramped for me.

This boat has a queen sized berth under the cockpit. In reality,
the port side will be used for storage and the starboard side used as
a pilot berth.

Like the Baby Bear's bed in the old children's story,
this one fits just right.

Richard

WaIIy wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:40:20 -0400, "mmc" wrote:

I completely agree about the non reflective screen issue.
I should have included it in the list.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26/
7th pic down...

the screen will fold up under the deck in front of that shelf.
Out of the way, and with a hard cover, should be safe there.

Up there, with a little down angle like you were stretched out
on the bunk, even the mirror surface of my lap top looks great.
All the reflections go elsewhere.

I think 18 inches will be plenty.
But 40 watts! and that's just the display. Doesn't include the
computer or audio amp.

I've got the audio run into the stereo, and the sound is theater
quality - specially in that echo chamber.
I've got absolutely nothing to offer for advice, but I like your boat!
Especially the open layout below with no bulkhead and no attemp to create a
seperate v berth. I think this is so much better in a small boat than trying
to cram seating in the salon and having a seperate v.
Cool!


As clean a boat as I have ever seen. Nice

You just validated a weeks scrubbing, Wally.

Thanks.
We appreciate that.

cavelamb wrote in
m:

As clean a boat as I have ever seen. Nice

You just validated a weeks scrubbing, Wally.

Thanks.
We appreciate that.



Is that a tiny scratch on that handrail, there, or maybe just a reflection
off the highly polished surface?.....(c;]

I can't sail on boats like this "showroom" boat. Too many weeks on
something that looks like humans live there and weren't afraid to put their
deckshoes on the wine-stained cushions....

I can tell your boat never had one of OUR dock parties....


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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?

Larry wrote:
cavelamb wrote in
m:

As clean a boat as I have ever seen. Nice
You just validated a weeks scrubbing, Wally.

Thanks.
We appreciate that.



Is that a tiny scratch on that handrail, there, or maybe just a reflection
off the highly polished surface?.....(c;]

I can't sail on boats like this "showroom" boat. Too many weeks on
something that looks like humans live there and weren't afraid to put their
deckshoes on the wine-stained cushions....

I can tell your boat never had one of OUR dock parties....



She's 18 years old, Larry - hardly in "show room" condition.
She has some battle damage - but nothing terrible.

She's just new to us, so we've put a bit of elbow grease into
making her sparkle a bit - for the commissioning party!

A week later she's "normal" again.

cavelamb wrote in news:C-
:

She's 18 years old, Larry - hardly in "show room" condition.
She has some battle damage - but nothing terrible.

She's just new to us, so we've put a bit of elbow grease into
making her sparkle a bit - for the commissioning party!

A week later she's "normal" again.




I took my 16' jetboat up to "Bushy Park", an earthen dam that simply
separated the brackish water of the Cooper River from fresh water that
comes down a canal from up the Cooper far enough to be all fresh from
the lake. It's a reservoir for our water system. There's a boat ramp
on both sides the county maintains with nice floating aluminum docks and
paved parking/ramps.

I launched the jetboat in the salt side for a trip up the Cooper, then
back down the canal upriver into the reservoir, a very nice daytrip on
the river in beautiful weather that can be extended to go all the way up
to the dam, through the free lock into the lake and back if there's
time.

I tied the boat up to the dock by the launching ramps and across the
dock from there was a little girl sitting in a very old runabout that
had seen most of its life powered by a tired old Evinrude, a boat for
the less fortunate of us.

She said to me, very proudly, "This is my daddy's new boat! Isn't she
beautiful?!" with a smile that was several orders of magnitude brighter
than the hot South Carolina sun. I complimented her on her fine craft
and, upon reinspection, could see it was the finest vessel on the river
that day. How could anyone think otherwise by such a brightly-lit main
deck, brighter than anything else in view?

As I parked the car in the lot, I just felt this was going to be a
special day. It already had been.....(c;]

Funny how cracked plastic seats look so much different when such a
pretty little girl was sitting in them.....



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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?