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Practical Battery Operation
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Bill,

You'll be suprised how long the 9V's will last. I have a 42-122 (5 tubes) and a 40-95 (4 tubes) that run on the same battery configuration that Terry described, and I've listened to complete baseball games with no loss of volume. They can go a couple hours a week, and have lasted as much as a year or more. The D cells are the first to go, generally.

All things considered, it's a pretty cheap way to run a radio. If you go with ten cheap drug-store variety 9V's, they'll last a good long time.

I also have several AC power supplies for these radios as well. I used some 4 pin connectors for interchangeability. It's pretty slick!

Bill

Sent from my Pentium II on the AT&T Dial Network


Messages In This Thread
Practical Battery Operation - by bill T - 02-12-2007, 10:41 AM
[No subject] - by Terry Judkins - 02-12-2007, 02:31 PM
[No subject] - by bill T - 02-12-2007, 08:41 PM
[No subject] - by Bill Hutchinson - 02-12-2007, 11:15 PM
[No subject] - by bill T - 02-13-2007, 07:20 AM
Battery's - by BILL - 02-15-2007, 12:17 PM
[No subject] - by bill T - 02-18-2007, 09:33 AM



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