{"id":306,"date":"2015-03-17T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/?page_id=306"},"modified":"2015-03-17T19:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:39:04","slug":"installing-a-dvd-tv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/projects\/installing-a-dvd-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a DVD TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some TV\/DVD player combination units are just perfect for a van!\u00a0 This model, found at the local Best Buy, has a separate 12V transformer to power the unit, so it’s already set up to run on 12VDC.\u00a0 Buying an RV-specific TV\/DVD seems to cost three times the price of this 20″ unit.<\/p>\n

Pulling down on the upper headliner, a roof cross beam is exposed.\u00a0 I inserted two rivnuts (silver) to the left and right of center, in holes where the plastic push clips were inserted to hold the headliner in place.<\/p>\n

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Two 3\/4″ plywood x 2″ strips were then attached to the rivnuts with 14-20 bolts.\u00a0 At the other end of the boards, two more rivnuts were installed, and bolted up the other end of the boards.<\/p>\n

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A cross board and flat 3\/4′ plywood backer plate is suspended from the top boards.\u00a0 The 4 holes are spaced to hold the 4 screws that hold the TV in place.<\/p>\n

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A bottom brace of aluminum was located to hold the bottom of the backer board from moving or vibrating!<\/p>\n

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…and here’s a look at the TV in position!\u00a0 The bottom of the TV is even with the bottom of the lower headliner.<\/p>\n

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At some point, the finished ceiling will cover the wood support strips.<\/p>\n

A 12V power wire is routed down the driver side B pillar to a battery behind the driver’s seat.\u00a0 A magnetic mount antenna, temporarily stuck next to the van window provides about 12 channels of HDTV!\u00a0 No signal?\u00a0 Watch a DVD on the player built into the TV!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some TV\/DVD player combination units are just perfect for a van!\u00a0 This model, found at the local Best Buy, has a separate 12V transformer to power the unit, so it’s already set up to run on 12VDC.\u00a0 Buying an RV-specific TV\/DVD seems to cost three times the price of this 20″ unit. Pulling down on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions\/316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/empowersites.com\/edsvan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}