Re: Continuous Duty Small "LCD" Monitors

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bob,  has anyone tried using one of those LCD desk top picture displays?
> Never tried myself  but the size would be right..
> RTS


I wonder... do they have a composite input?


> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message
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> Used to be Sharp was the ticket back when small LCDs were expensive.  I
> still have plenty of them in service, but not its getting hard to find a
> decent small LCD to use as a monitor that will hold up to continuous duty.
> Sure there are lots of cheap ones out there, but they are just that.
> Cheap.
>
> I routinely run into applications where its handy to slap a 12VDC 7-10"
> LCD
> monitor on the wall next to a high traffic door.  The problem is with
> those
> that seem to be available readily I wind up replacing them about every 18
> months.
>
> Now, I can't throw money at them either, but if say there was a make that
> was 40 or 50% more expensive, but that would hold up for 3-5 years (or
> more)
> of continuous duty I would buy them.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Pyle has a 10" in that price range designed as an in-wall.  Anybody using
> them?
>
> 10" is the most common size, but I run into plenty of doors at the end of
> a
> hallway in a commercial build where a 7" is the largest that will fit in
> the
> space.
>
>
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