11-09-2006, 08:13 PM
Chris,
Half the fun of working with farm radios is putting together power supplies and battery packs for them. Many of the simpler circuit radios require a 1 1/2V "A" and a 90V "B" battery, which are simple enough to either put together an AC supply or build a battery unit for them.
At a fall radio club meet last year, we had a theme for the meeting of "bring in your summer finds", and I brought in the 42-122. Mine was the only radio that worked - it had a battery pack in it that I built. I had more questions about the battery pack than the radio! [What I did was inside a Radio Shack project box, I had 10 9V batteries in series and 2 flashlight "D" cells in parallel - it'll run the radio for hours!]
Should you want to go authentic, contact Bill Morris, the "Battery Maker". He can be contacted at "batterymaker at gmail dot com". He does some amazing work building replica batteries.
Bill
Half the fun of working with farm radios is putting together power supplies and battery packs for them. Many of the simpler circuit radios require a 1 1/2V "A" and a 90V "B" battery, which are simple enough to either put together an AC supply or build a battery unit for them.
At a fall radio club meet last year, we had a theme for the meeting of "bring in your summer finds", and I brought in the 42-122. Mine was the only radio that worked - it had a battery pack in it that I built. I had more questions about the battery pack than the radio! [What I did was inside a Radio Shack project box, I had 10 9V batteries in series and 2 flashlight "D" cells in parallel - it'll run the radio for hours!]
Should you want to go authentic, contact Bill Morris, the "Battery Maker". He can be contacted at "batterymaker at gmail dot com". He does some amazing work building replica batteries.
Bill
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