Atwater-Kent 84, restoration.
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Well, in the declining years folks sometimes tend to use what disposable income they have left to pamper themselves to their youth's dreams which they had no money when they were young and no time when they were mature.
After all money is not to be taken to the grave, so why not treat oneself to one or two luxuries that we salivated all over in our teens...
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My memory had not failed me when I was writing about those inductances. I found them, both 5.6mH and 10mH, both small axial ones.
So, I think, I will use the 10mH one; it is about 47 Ohm (which I think is not even important) and about 40mA (which is way more than I need there).
Today I could not do anything: came home, cook the meal, took out the recycling (ours is every other week, so it is lots of it), called mom...by then it was already 8pm.
Not today, no...
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So, I sat down, and first tried 40 AWG wire. It broke quickly. I retook diameter: this one was 0.05mm whereas the one I took off was 0.08 to 0.09mm.
I took AWG 38 I have, which is 0.09 to 0.1mm, and in 30 minutes or so put manually 580 turns (it was 700). Condisdering this is a filter choke, this should be just fine.
I took the ohhmeter to it, and it gave me 64-65 Ohm (66 is the target), so that was right on, and the inductance on my LCR was 5.2mH (my first calculated value on one of the inductance calculator was 6mH).
So it is just fine.
I took a candle and heatgun and potted the open wire.
Tomorrow I will connect it back and try to power up.
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Hello mike,
Nice job hopefully it works and I am sure it will.
Sincerely Richard
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Mike;
Where was this RF choke located? I remember seeing on a few sets that had detector-amplifiers ahead of the power output stage that that they often had an RF choke involved to prevent IF interference from getting into the audio (at least it think that was what it was for). Sets that had a proper second detector diode, or pair of diodes didn't need it so much.
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http://www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByModel...001491.pdf
The 66 Ohm filter in the 1st detector's plate circuit.
Look in the early version sch.
Here it is, the spiral that marked 66 Ohms.
I should've just used that 5.6mH or 10mH small inductance I have, but then I just wanted that a bit more original...absolutely no reason for it.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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