60 cells are a pain to keep watered and cleaned. Some TV may work on 120 v dc, some may smoke. Incandeescent lamps will be happy but are the worst use of stored energy, I doubt compact fluorsecent lamps will run on DC. The ones I have are AC only.
Few home made windmills with car or truck alternators have been successful. Those who have checked out the possibility consider the alternators to be inefficient compared to other generator designs.
Visit the web site of Home Power Magazine and learn there.
First you have to determine your absolute minimum power needs and work from there.
Many of line homes use 12, 24, or 48 volt batteries, generally combinations of 6 volt golf cart batteries. For these battery voltages, inverters and chargers are available from several vendors. As well as windmills and photo voltaic panels.
Since its inefficient running a 2 KW inverter for a few compact fluorescent lamps, its better to have built in inverters in each lamp and those are available at RV and marine dealers to run off 12 volts DC. There are a few analog TV that will run off 12 volts DC, I don't know about HD for 12 volts DC. Should be, I think.
The only rub with running stuff on 12 volts is that you need sturdier wires than for the same loads at 120 volts to minimize voltage drop, but LED and CFL lights don't use a lot of that precious stored energy.
But then if your needs are short time, none of the above will pay off and you might as well drag a noisy (or quiet Honda) generator to the camp and use it for a few hours a day when you need lights and TV. That will cost the least and will work reliably so long as you care for the engine and have fuel.
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