[ARC5] Heater wiring - 12V vs. 24v

[John Hutchins]

Michael
   what was the publications,
Hutch

On 7/12/2010 11:54 PM, Michael wrote:
> I realize this is awful late but this is the first time I've been able to
> respond.
>
> Les, in answer to your question, to wit:
>
>    
>> On a different subject, how do you justify the HUGE effort in collating
>> all the info for your book and the time to write it?
>>      
> Very simply, I don't.
>
> My previous publication came out of a set of lists I made for myself to keep
> from having to cross reference half a dozen dead tree manuals all at once.
> I added some poorly worded prose done on a tripe-writer that hated me and I
> had a more or less instant success because no one had bothered to gather all
> that information in one place before.  Some thirty years later, it's still
> selling despite its having found its way onto the web.  My quiet bragging
> right is that it has gone international and is (Was?  Mike Hanz, is it
> still?) in use at the NASM.
>
> Several people here pointed out a few weaknesses in the original,
> specifically equipment not listed, one or two errors (I told you that
> machine hated me.  No, really, it did!), no mention of how they were
> originally used, no historic background and so on.  The list was pretty
> long.  It boiled down to refocusing from a small portion of the company's
> product line to a much broader and far more inclusive one to include the
> company itself.
>
> Several people have tried this before including our own beloved and highly
> respected Gordon White, from whom I'm probably going to steal the title.
> They simply didn't have the time to put into it due to other commitments and
> the fact that they have real lives.  I'm retired/disabled, I am agoraphobic
> &  subject to anxiety attacks therefore don't go out a lot and I haven't had
> a life for so long I've forgotten what it means.  As a result, I have the
> time.  With that, I like history, I have the interest and I enjoy research
> in detail.  I've used A.R.C. equipment as a ham and as a pilot, so have that
> experience as well.  I don't have some of the information others here have
> and haven't yet yielded up but either I'll find the right grovel/bribe or be
> forced to send in Mung the Moribund.
>
> Anyway, getting back, I don't believe there's anything to justify.  I have
> always enjoyed a good challenge and this definitely is one.  It's
> frustrating as anything at times but it's fun ferreting out unique pieces
> like your R-24 and a late construction ATA Tx I have that has the antenna
> loading coil cover held on by screws like an AN/ARC-5 Tx instead of two snap
> slides.
>
> In all of this, I hope to find what GF/RU systems used which *letter* model
> transmitters&  receivers (and what the differences were), how the different
> SCR-A*-183 versions varied to make them incompatible (and why the AF version
> was so different as to require coils with locating pins to prevent other
> coils from being used) and if/where the receivers or transmitters from the
> different systems were used with other equipment like the RU receivers were
> with the GO&  GP transmitters.
>
> These are just part of the growing list of questions to which I have no
> answers as of yet.
>
> Believe it or not, I am not masochistic; it just seems that way at times.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
> http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx
> http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/
> http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com
> Hiki Nô!
>
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