wiring fish house for using a TV

[mrjigger]

I am in the process of wiring my new ice castle. I plan on wiring the house for 12V lighting/TV and 110V for when I have a generator.

Just want to make sure I am wiring the house correctly for using a TV/DVD player.

I am wiring up a 12V outlet and coaxial connection combination. The coax cable will run to the outside of the house and connect to either an antenna or satellite dish.

Below the 12V outlet I also wired up a 110V outlet for if/when I use a generator to power the TV.

I think i have it all covered, but the only thing I am confused about is the inverter. I have never used one before. will the invertor just connect into the 12V outlet and then the TV plugs into the invertor?

[Dave]

Correct

[Mainehazmt]

your inverter should be as close to the batteries as possible Remember cheap inverter could possibly ruin your tv! 20- 30 buck inverter to a 300 buck tv not good insurance trust me I been there!

[mrjigger]

How close is appropriate?

in my example my inverter would acutally be right next to my TV. Not next to the batteries.

How do I wire up an inverter to be close to my batteries, yet still beable to plug my TV into the inverter?

Seems like this would not work without an extension cord or something.

I guess to make that work, I would have to wire up the 12V outlet next to my batteries and then just have a standard 110V plug near my batteries as well that routed back to my TV. Hard to describe, but is that correct. I have never seen it done this way though.