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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea.
Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? |
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
"NE Sailboat" wrote in message news:3p79h.6678$LH2.5008@trndny04... Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea. Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? I was thinking of installing a 42" plasma screen on my forward saloon bulkhead so I can play "Virtual Skipper" on it. |
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
Wait ,, I get it .... this is a joke ............ old stupid me ..
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
Aboard Heart of Gold we use a little Sony portable DVD player. It also folds up flat and can be mounted on a bulkhead. Costs about 180 bucks. See it he http://hometown.aol.com/bobsprit/images/navnavyweb.jpg It runs on DC, AC or 6 hours on a charge. We barely used it last season, so plans for a more elaborate pair of screens are on hold. Buy one from a Circuit City type store and by the 2 or 3 year warranty. If it falls in the bilge you're covered! Robert 35s5 NY |
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
NE Sailboat wrote:
Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea. Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? I love that last question! On the Queen Mary 2, quite a long time, but on your boat? Not sure. Do they still make black and white TVs? Dennis. |
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you
power one? Battery? 20" Sharp Aquos, 12vDC. DVD player with it's audio looped into the Clarion head unit. Video out goes to the TV and the Raymarine E-80 chartplotter. Video on the chartplotter is basically pointless on our particular setup but I connected it "because I could". The audio looped to the radio really improves watching movies. MUCH better sound than the speakers on the TV itself. While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? It varies quite a bit between different laptops. There are also different ways to power them. You can either use an inverter and the normal power brick, or get one designed to run off 12vDC. The latter generally consume less wattage, and are also usually quite a bit smaller/lighter than the regular AC power brick. Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? My ancient 1ghz Toshiba runs about 2 hours, but the wife's tiny little Sony gets 8 hours. |
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"Bill Kearney" wrote:
Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? 20" Sharp Aquos, 12vDC. DVD player with it's audio looped into the Clarion head unit. Video out goes to the TV and the Raymarine E-80 chartplotter. Video on the chartplotter is basically pointless on our particular setup but I connected it "because I could". The audio looped to the radio really improves watching movies. MUCH better sound than the speakers on the TV itself. We have two TVs on board - one for the main saloon and one for the aft cabin (where we sleep). The one in the aft cabin is a dual voltage color TV/VCR combo. It is hooked to the follow-me antenna for the Direct TV satellite dish. It is a little bigger than the dual voltage one we got for our son when he was driving flatbed trucks all over the US. We also have a regular old shore power TV in the main saloon, but we don't use that one unless we are at a marina. It is also hooked to the satellite. While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? It varies quite a bit between different laptops. There are also different ways to power them. You can either use an inverter and the normal power brick, or get one designed to run off 12vDC. The latter generally consume less wattage, and are also usually quite a bit smaller/lighter than the regular AC power brick. You can also get 12v power bricks for some of them designed to run off the cigarette lighter outlet in the car. Even with that, they still put out a lot of interference if you are going to run the SSB. Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? My ancient 1ghz Toshiba runs about 2 hours, but the wife's tiny little Sony gets 8 hours. It depends not only on the power draw and the size of the batteries relative to that, but also on the state of the batteries. My mom's old laptop has no rechargeablity left and will not run on the batteries at all. My old laptop will last about a half an hour or 45 minutes where it used to be able to go almost 2 hours. This one with newer batteries will last 2 hours or more. |
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:09:03 GMT, in message
3p79h.6678$LH2.5008@trndny04 "NE Sailboat" wrote: Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea. Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? I have an older IBM Thinkpad with DVD onboard. It will run almost the full length of a movie without, but not quite. Plugged into the battery it eats about 5 amps of 12 volt DC while running either on the inverter or with the DC/DC power adapter. The sound from the laptop is not adequate, but I have fixed that by upgrading the stereo to a unit that has an aux input on the front panel suitable for iPods or computers. Ryk |
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wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
I don't have one on the boat. I probably won't. The closest thing I
have to a TV is a depthfinder. But I do have an AMFM CD player . When we're out on the boat, That's it. ..just us and the boat. If I wanted to watch TV, I'd stay home with the big screen,. NE Sailboat wrote: Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea. Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? |
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Since I don't have a "big screen" at home ....... a little screen on board
should be ok ... right? I checked around and the dvd players are selling for $50 bucks ( that is the price on the black Friday flyer ). I clicked on a web site that said the battery should go 6 hours. Some of them do battery packs, so you can bring two all powered up when you leave for a cruise. I also have a cd/am/fm/ stereo on board. I am adding a laptop for the boat. Haven't bought it yet. The laptop will be used for navigation as well as goofing. With so much out there for sale, check ebay, why not? Still must sail the boat though. --- "Tim" wrote in message ups.com... I don't have one on the boat. I probably won't. The closest thing I have to a TV is a depthfinder. But I do have an AMFM CD player . When we're out on the boat, That's it. ..just us and the boat. If I wanted to watch TV, I'd stay home with the big screen,. NE Sailboat wrote: Funny, I was thinking about this tonight .. why? I have no idea. Do those small black and white tv's work? How much power? How do you power one? Battery? While I have your attention :: how much power does a laptop take up? Also, how long will a laptop run before it is out of juice? |
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