A:Answer Rocky ... if you're planning on running ANY TV from a generator ... BEWARE !! Same thing with using batteries and an inverter. Unless the power is "pure" and a good sine wave -- vs a square wave -- the TV will likely not work correctly. Honda generators have a good clean power output ... most others ... not so much.
Last summer at a major aviation event in Wisconsin, I helped a friend connect up a new Harbor Freight inverter generator to his RV but when he tried to run the TV or DVD player, they didn't work correctly. We noticed a guy with a Honda generator and borrowed it ... guess what ... the TV then worked fine.
IRONICALLY ... Honda had sent a rep all the way from Japan to wander the RV lot to see what he'd see of people using their generators. At the exact time we were dong the above, he walked by and we chatted. The engineer laughed when we told him the problem. He told us that Honda generators have proprietary circuitry and they even encapsulate it to prevent others from figuring out how they do it. I'm here to tell you that this is correct. I'm an avionics type and I surmised that my friend would have this problem ... and he did.
I'd recommend you trying to find a TV that works on 12 volts DC (it'll be smaller) but then you could run it directly off of batteries. That's what I do on my RV.
