TV, 12 volt vs. 110 volt

If you have an APU and inverter then get the 110.

 

I bought a old Samsung 12/120 volt in 1997 at a TA in Ann Arbor or close to it. We would run that in the truck off the 12 volts easily enough all the day. And it did the 120 off the wall at the house no trouble. It survived 9-11 with some speaker damage after the towers falling hurt them with the bass from inside one of the underground passages very close to or under one of the towers by a cameraman live.

We finally had the television begin to degrade about a year ago. And we went ahead and gave it away to someone who does not have any at all. We already had a batch of flat screens and one newer smart tv for like a hundred dollars and are getting ready to get a 4k monitor for this computer and one for the wall.

The biggest change we had to do with that television from trucking was back in the 2000's Congress stopped the analog nationally and started broadcasting digital. We were able to get some of the first vouchers for one free digital converter from best buy and a reduction in cost on the second. So we can pull off air in digital and convert to analog to feed that old television.

All in all it served us well, particularly when it rode rough on bad roads for oh... 5 years give or take. Probably about 700,000 miles roughly. (245000 in team in 2001 alone)

Believe it or not, we still have televisions of that old technology from the 60's era, the early color ones still operating behind a converter in one of the family homes to this day.

There will be a time coming when broadcast TV goes to 4K over the air, that will create a screen image that wont work with those older tubes. (Or across dish or cable recievers that don't do 4k either)