I power my Insignia converter with a cheap 75 watt cigarette lighter inverter plugged into the auxiliary 12 volt port at the antenna booster switch behind my LCD TV. Works great. Fantastic picture quality. Only two digital channels in my City right now (Canada isn't turning off the analog signals till 2011), so I installed an A/B switch (the cable input line to the converter connects to the auxiliary cable port of the booster switch so no need for another splitter) so I can easily move back and forth.
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Glad to hear the digital converter will run off a little 75 watt inverter. I have a couple of those ... and a cigarette plug near the antenna booster ... and a 2 for 1 plug adapter ... so I'll be able to run my black and white tv and the converter on 12 volt!
While I really wasn't planning this ... since I'm a couple days from running a Illinois-Colorado-Lake Louise-Jasper-Fort McMoney ... when I'm in Canada, I'll be able to "retain" my analog ability by just pulling the converter out of the set up.
RicJones wrote: I just installed my converter box in the MH a couple of days ago and I to am impressed by the quality of the picture and the number of channels it picks up. Much better than with just the MH antenna.
I hooked mine up through the VCR like Winnebago suggests but I may switch it to the AUX on my control box, that way I don't have to mess with the setting on the VCR
Are you using a amplified "batwing" style antenna with the converter?
How could you use the AUX input, since I would think the the antenna would be not be powered using that input setting on the distribution box.
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One more comment in regards to using satellite TV in your RV. A couple of years ago I bought a new flat screen TV that did not have a digital tuner. The salesman warned me but that wasn't to be a problem since I carry my Dish with me. Well that was true--sorta. I like to watch the local news in the evening and of course once I leave my spotbeam for my locals at home I no longer have locals. So up to now, when spending the winter in Florida I just used my antenna for the news and satellite for the rest. Now next winter I'll need a converter if I want to watch the local newscast. You could run into the same thing at home. Up to two years ago Dish did not offer us locals so we had to depend on a tower antenna for local stations. Just be sure to consider all options when deciding on a converter (I never thought of "pass through" for the few campgrounds with cable until someone brought it up in this thread--thanks for that).
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