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Originally Posted by vortalexfan
The "no-load" voltage of the 6V Lantern Battery I have is around 5.5V and when I hooked the radio up to the battery and turned it on and measured the voltage the voltage was 1.5V on the battery so there was a voltage drop of about 4V on the battery.
Do you think the Vibrator could be bad? Also what's the purpose of those Vibrators in these old battery radios?
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A vibrator is used to convert DC to a form of square wave AC to operate the step-up transformer. It also has a set of commutating contacts to convert AC back to DC. Eliminates the need for a rectifier tube, really old technology.
The vibrator's probably stuck and will act as a dead short.
You'll go broke, fooling around with lantern batteries to power this set!
04-10-2021, 10:47 AM
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