01-01-2024, 12:44 PM
Battery set are fun. And if you can run them off of batteries rather than an eliminator you'll separate yourself from a lot of line noise.
I like to imagine to history of the set. The last time it was powered up (if it's form the '30s) was probably a long long time ago. Was it owned by someone who didn't have AC power to their house/shack out in the hills of nowhere? Candles and kerosene lamps for light at night? Just think after a busy day on the farm the sun is going down and you are in the easy chair. Pipe in hand w/your favorite blend in it. Click on the radio and tune in Suspense! or The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show. Dowsing off to sleep to awake the next morning to start another day. What a life...
A lot of battery sets Philco included use a dual switch. One switch controls the filament voltage and other the B voltages. Some of the early sets from the '20s they just turn off the filament assuming that if the filament in off there is going to no B current flow. Maybe, I had a set that had a leaky bypass cap in the B circuit and with the set off it drained my new B batteries flat. These where the real ones not the 9v jobs snapped together, this was back in the '70s you could still get the big ones for a price.
I like to imagine to history of the set. The last time it was powered up (if it's form the '30s) was probably a long long time ago. Was it owned by someone who didn't have AC power to their house/shack out in the hills of nowhere? Candles and kerosene lamps for light at night? Just think after a busy day on the farm the sun is going down and you are in the easy chair. Pipe in hand w/your favorite blend in it. Click on the radio and tune in Suspense! or The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show. Dowsing off to sleep to awake the next morning to start another day. What a life...
A lot of battery sets Philco included use a dual switch. One switch controls the filament voltage and other the B voltages. Some of the early sets from the '20s they just turn off the filament assuming that if the filament in off there is going to no B current flow. Maybe, I had a set that had a leaky bypass cap in the B circuit and with the set off it drained my new B batteries flat. These where the real ones not the 9v jobs snapped together, this was back in the '70s you could still get the big ones for a price.
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!
Terry
