[Milsurplus] vibrator power transformers

Richard Brunner [email protected]
Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:23:21 -0500


Re:
>  I recently re-read an article discussing solid-state replacements for
vibrators. The author used a toggle switch to take the "resonance" capacitor
out of the circuit for Transistor switching and put it back in for Vibrator
switching.(So the power supply could be used with either switching source.)
Bill KA3AIS

This is getting unnecessarily complicated.  I have replaced damaged,
unreplacable, vibrators with the simple transistor multivibrator many times
with excellent results; efficiency is slightly better, and there is no
vibrator hash.  This is direct replacement - no circuit modification is
necessary.  (See "GRC-9 Operating Notes," Electric Radio, April 1998, pgs
31-33.)

Richard Brunner, AA1P