Davydd
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My old 2005 Pleasure-way Plateau and my current 2011 Great West Van Legend had and has a small inverter of about 450W for the TV. The TV is a standard LCD that normally plugs into a 110v outlet. The inverter enables just that one outlet from battery power. In the case of the Plateau the outlet was part of the inverter and concealed in an enclosed cabinet. I opened it up when I added a new digital LCD TV on a swing arm. With both Bs, whenever, I was hooked into shore power I plugged the TV into a normal 110v outlet because I found the small inverter fan noise so close to the TV a little bit annoying.
Great West Van offers an option of a larger inverter of I think about 1750w or 2000w which is intended to power the 110v outlets thus the plug in microwave and 110v coffee pot. In their new Legend EX with the extended 24 ft. body they have four auxiliary battery compartments. That's a lot of possible amp hours. Mine has two 12v with 210 amp hours total.
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gerrym51
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hobbssb wrote:As prospective buyers who've never owned an RV, we're sorting out differences between the 22'9" Sprinter models and need some help.
Both the RT Adventurous and LeisureTravel Free Spirit list 2-6v batteries (220 am hrs?) and an inverter in their specs. The Pleasure-Way Pleateau has 1-12v battery(90 amp hrs????) with no mention of an inverter.
Does that mean that when boondocking, in the PW with no inverter, we'd have to be running the generator every evening to make 120 current if we wanted to watch movies? And even if we had an inverter in the PW, its use would be limited with the small capacity 12-volt?
Thanks for helping us sort this out!
as fara s i know the 2012 pleasure ways use 12 volt televisions with
advd slot. this avoids needing an inverter and use less battery power
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Davydd
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truepath wrote:I'd try to run everything on 12 volts and avoid the inefficiencies of an inverter altogether. I'm not at all sure why the B manufacturers don't install 12 volt TV's as apparently Pleasure Way does (see above).
In boondocking situations in national and state forests, national parks, etc. there is rarely TV to watch. Near metro areas and where there there is TV coverage we are more than likely to camp at a site that has shore power electrical. A small inverter for a TV is rather inexpensive and I suspect with more options that you can pick up a 110v TV cheap enough to offset the cost and still have more choices. I did replace my analog LCD in my old Pleasure-way with a new digital LCD that was better and a bigger screen.
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hobbssb
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Per John at PleasureWay re. the TV in Plateaus:
"Units coming offline now are 120V with a small inverter to run them.
Previous 2012 models are strictly 12V."
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truepath
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I'd try to run everything on 12 volts and avoid the inefficiencies of an inverter altogether. I'm not at all sure why the B manufacturers don't install 12 volt TV's as apparently Pleasure Way does (see above).
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NewsW
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truepath wrote:I'd try to run everything on 12 volts and avoid the inefficiencies of an inverter altogether. I'm not at all sure why the B manufacturers don't install 12 volt TV's as apparently Pleasure Way does (see above).
There are very few 12V TVs out there.
Have to really look to find one.
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ffjeff
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Another way to save on power consumption is to go to the TV's settings menu and find the power setting. We had the origianl Samsung that Pleasure way had installed and droped from like 64 watts to 36 in power saving. A little color saturation loss was all.
When Hi Def became the standard we replaced it with a Hi Def model from BestBuy rather than add a converter which would use even more power, it too has power saving features that will extend the battery life a few hours.
The old Samsung replaced my old computer monitor an cleared out a lot of space on my desk in the garage.
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