|
Those portable tube radios usually required two batteries, one high voltage for the plate voltage and one low voltage battery for the tube heaters. I recall that I could touch the terminals on a 67 1/2 VDC battery and usually not feel it, but the 90V job would give a mild shock.
These were carbon zinc batteries that didn't last very long and weren't rechargable so costs to actually use these sets was pretty high. Portable radios only really got popular in the late 50s when the first transistors sets came out. Most of them used the same size 9v battery we see today except the were carbon rather then alky we use today.
Lefty
__________________
Lefty:
Cables? I don't got to show you no
stinkin' cables
038° 00' 58.68" -122° 15' 39.54"
134.84 ft
|