OT New digital TV for the caravan.

might be worth posting to uk.rec.motorcaravans and uk.rec.caravanning.

Dave,

I bought a MEOS 20inch 12v set for the caravan from here:--

Pete Aldous

Odd I was peering at the cheap boxes in Asda/Tesco last week and most of those live of DC from a wall wart and IIRC it was 12v...

I'm looking for one with an integral channel number display for use as a radio unconnected to a TV.

That's a good idea - probably cheaper than a DAB tuner.

NHH

Probably better quality than DAB and I think with a wider choice of stations. Both require you to be in a digital coverage area though. We do have a DAB set but the suplied bit of damp string doesn't produce and DAB stations and DSO isn't until 2012 on the local relay but we *might* be able to get something from Caldbeck.

Problem mainly solved!! I found out that Tesco's TVonics £40 digibox when you open the box you find out that not only will it work on a TV with no scart socket but it uses a plug type 12V supply. I can now re-use my convential 12V TV on digital in the caravan. It seems to work very well and is even made in England. 8^)

whatever your orientation. We had a similar problem

of a tall chest of drawers and viewing from bed

I have just discovered what an idiot my age has made me!! When I looked at the voltage it is only 5.3 volts and if I hadn't put the van away before trying the unit at home I would have damaged it. It works fine at home but no use for a touring van away from mains. I rang the firm and they don't make a 12v to 5V converter. I apologise to everyone for my stupidity.

Dave Croft

In message , Dave Croft writes

What current does it take? - is it specified on the mains adaptor or elsewhere? A 12-volt-in 5-volt-out USB-socketed charging adaptor, something like this perhaps

ought to supply up to 1 amp and should be OK if the digibox doesn't mind

writes

elsewhere? A 12-volt-in 5-volt-out USB-socketed charging

volts less than spec.

Thanks for that Andrew. I have stored the site for the spring when I get the van back. The converter uses a maximum of 1 Amp so it probably would be OK.

Plenty of 5v regs (LM????) around if you dont mind lifting a soldering iron. Probably switch mode ones as well if you want to keep dissipation down.

NHH

In message , Dave Croft writes

No problem. That particular converter is specced at the full 1A, but I've seen others rated at only 0.5A. Alternatively a 7805 regulator on a decent heat sink, plus the usual input and output decoupling capacitors, should work fine, and give a bit of safety margin too, as it's rated at

We bought a MEOS 12V LCD TV for the caravan. It can record onto a memory stick for time shifting and can time slip (pause real time TV) onto it as well. The only problem with time slip is the subtitles come on and I can't turn them off. Even worse, they're in real time so you read the plot XX mins ahead of the picture! Other than that, it seems a good set so far and has replaced our original TV from 1980. Now I can watch colour TV in the caravan. The down side is it gets CITV so getting the sprogs moving is a hard job.

John