[Milsurplus] ACR-5 Mobile

[J Forster]

It would seem to me to be pretty easy to get a 12 to 24 VDC converter and put it
in a box with a pair of 12 V 8 AH gel cells for dyno starting. After all, it's
not likely that you are going to use this thing 24/7/365 for 10 years with your
life depending on it.

As to converting it for 12 V operation, please don't. The sets no longer grow on
trees.

Best,
-John



Jack Antonio wrote:

> [snip] As far as power out goes, on CW I've always been able to get at least
> 25W out of
> a stock transmitter(using the stock dynamotor), but on AM the screen voltage
> is lowered, which brings AM power down to 15 watts or so.  I can see why
> this was done on the SCR-274N with its screen modulation, but I guess when
> the AN/ARC-5 was being designed, higher AM power was just not a requirement.
> Thinking about it, these were short range sets, 15 watts may have even been
> the maximum power the Navy wanted.
>
> Jack