[Milsurplus] TCS MG?

[Robert Downs]

Yes, but as best I can recall, it was missing either one of the motors or
one of the generators.  I never tried to complete it.  Which I guess was
just as well as in about 60 years of collecting, I don't recall ever running
across another MG set for the TCS.  The transmitter and receiver generators
are the same in all of the MG sets.  The transmitter one only outputs 400
VDC.  The receiver generator outputs 220 VDC and 12 VDC.  You can't start
the transmitter without first starting the receiver.  For several reasons.

 

As to why the Navy had so many MG sets, given that they are in general
always less efficient than the equivalent dynamotor or transformer supply, I
think it was in part that they had come into being first so they were used
to them and in part that an MG set will survive a near miss much better than
a tube rectifier set.  But I don't actually know.

 

Robert Downs

 

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Hi all,

 

Was looking into the TCS line of radios and saw this table in one of the
documents (I hope it comes through). Few questions.

1.	Has anyone ever run across the 24VDC motor generator set for this?
And does this produce 12V for the filaments? 
2.	If someone has 115VAC available, what would make them choose a motor
generator instead of a rectifier? Seems both were available

Thanks!

 



 

 

 

73 Eugene W2HX

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