I have a grundig 22" LCD flat screen cost $350 they come stranded from appliance stores on 240v but they actually run on 12vlt it's just a matter of checking the power supply box which is usually half way along the cord (on the small models ) and double check that it's a 12vlt system.
Cut the power supply box cable and wire direct to circuit board or via a fuse. Mine draws about 2.5 amps.


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I bought a 22" one on eBay for about $200. It has USB and DVD and draws about 5 amps.
The cable was only about 3 amp so I got the seller to give me $30 for a new one.
Otherwise it works fine and completely happy with it.
Just remembered the brand, Kinezo.

I have just installed a 16" on my boat, Kogan 12 volt HD LED with dvd built in plus usb input with remote 2 year warranty $132 delivered, kids love it!

My Grundig from Harvey Norman is now on special $250 flat screen 22 inch LED.....

Conclusion FYI.
I bought a Grundig 21.5 inch from Harvey Norman for $350. It was the only one that was smallish and that could display the video files directly from my Tachyon camera (format .mov) without buying more hardware to convert the format. Seems to work well. Sound is a little tinny but resolution is good and weight is not heavy.
I also looked at Teac, Panasonic and a couple of other brands I can't remember.

I think a 22 inch Led monitor/TV would be a perfect plotter screen mounted over the chart table so it's visible from the steering position. My 16 inch laptop is easily visible but there is no way it can be compared to the real estate of a large screen. They only draw 17 watts. The mini computers draw the same so for 34 watts that's a seriously big screen for less power than a laptop or a gps plotter with their tiny 7 inch screens.
Yes they can also be rotated to face the settee and used for a TV as well.
Tuesday I had the grandkids onboard and they spent some time comparing the plotter screen to the real world as we sailed along. Kids are different these days.

rumblefish said...

cisco said...
So. What!! Is sailing and living aboard a great cruising yacht so boring that you have to have a TV set aboard???

Is that not why you live on a yacht to get away from that crap??

The money is better spent on the best internet accessibility available if you want to stay connected.

Oh, but we need to keep the kids entertained you might say. So what is wrong with teaching them Snap, Poker, Pontoon, Gin Rummy, Bridge or Chess. Monopoly and Scrabble will work their minds too.

A 17 inch laptop screen is as good a display as is ever needed aboard a family yacht.

Was about to say exactly the same thing!!

We spent 2-3 weeks at a time crusing most summers as kids and if we weren't fishing, swimming, sinking the dinghy (not all the way, had flotation tanks!) walking the dog, making sails for the dinghy, collecting anything or just rowing around, we were probably eating or sleeping.

Oh and we would wear a pack of cards out in a week but out games were more of the triick based varieties like oh hell and 500.

And doesn't anyone read books anymore?

Sure if you're living on a boat I can understand a TV but for a weekend, a week....never!!

Oh dear, the ancient mariners using their astrolabe's criticised those new fangled sextants, "thats not sailing" the sextant users criticised the gps, "totally unnecessary new rubbish, and now we criticise the youth and their playthings, for me if it means the kids come sailing, without moaning, able to stay connected to the century we actually live in(remember you are all using an internet forum!) I am one happy sailor!:-)

Each to their own. I really enjoy the sounds of silence.