Wards Airline AM/SW

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Boobtubeman

Yeah, i didnt know a table model existed till i saw the schematic

Wonder how fast its gonna consume batteries when the tubes get here? Do they make post-post jumpers for the 9v batteries or is it a matter of a few modified 9v battery clips?
I know how to stack them to test it, but it will look silly

SR

I never throw a nine volt battery away until I take it apart and remove the snap connector. I've been doing that for years. You only need ten of them.
I, personally, would build an AC adaptor, for both the A&B sources.

[sean]

You can just snap the 9V batteries together in series. Snap the positive of one into the negative of the other, then snap the positive of another into the negative of the 2nd one and repeat with 10 batteries. You will have open terminals at the end of the string. You can take the terminal board from a discarded 9V and cut it in half to make connections to the string. Here's a photo I found on the web to illustrate what I mean.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by sean

You can just snap the 9V batteries together in series. Snap the positive of one into the negative of the other, then snap the positive of another into the negative of the 2nd one and repeat with 10 batteries. You will have open terminals at the end of the string. You can take the terminal board from a discarded 9V and cut it in half to make connections to the string. Here's a photo I found on the web to illustrate what I mean.

I've done that, myself. I used hot melt glue to hold them together.
BTW, I looked up the entry of a A-B supply, on the British Antique Wireless website. It seems to be a novel approach to the "B" circuitry, using all low priced, readily available components.
The "A" supply, looks like, the way I would do it.
It's on the Paul Stenning, website.