[Milsurplus] Manual advice...

[Mike Morrow]

>> I am also curious, was there ever an AC supply made for the ART-13
>> series?  If so, they must be scarce as hen's teeth.  A supply to handle
>> the voltages required would not be that difficult to home brew, but I
>> would like to use the original design if there ever was one.

>Yes. The Navy came up with one, perched an ART-13/ATC on top of the floor 
>mounted cabinet and called it the TCZ.   Used for shipboard and land based 
>applications.   There was also a 115 VDC version.   Very few units seem to 
>have made it out to the surplus market. 

You probably wouldn't want one anyway.  The Collins 413D-1 (COL-211101) Motor-Generator-Rectifier Power Unit section of the TCZ (for 115 vac, 60 cps) is more than four times the size of the transmitter and weighs 360 pounds (almost six times the weight of the transmitter section)!!  My TCZ manual is dated 9 MAY 1942.  It's a preliminary edition, so that must be about when the TCZ first made it to the fleet.

The BAMA mirror site at

http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/military-kg7bz/art13/

usually works better than the main BAMA site.  But files for ART-13 manuals are huge and impractical to download unless you have a very fast connection.

Mike / KK5F