[MRCA] SCR-284 PE-103

[Garret Scott]

Surprised to hear this. The two PE-103's I have are exceptionally quiet, more so than even some hand crank generators. You can barely hear them outside a tent. Compared to other dynamotors, they seem the quietest of all.  

Perhaps there's differences among them?

Garret
W8BUG


On October 3, 2017 12:41:53 AM EDT, WW2RDO via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>Hello Mike,
>     I have powered up a PE-103 with my BC-654.  There is no way I
>would want that thing in any forward position I was serving in - the
>noise would attract way too much attention at night ( I served with the
>10th Mountain Division in the early 1990s).   Like I said, Hellen
>Keller could find you in the dark when that thing fired up.
> 
>Mark
>WW2RDO
> 
> 
> 
>In a message dated 10/2/2017 2:55:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>kk5f at earthlink.net writes:
>
> 
> Mark wrote:
>
>>> As far as the noise made by the PE-103, I would have to agree with
>>> the Marines - way too noisy, especially at night. Hellen Keller
>>> could find you in the dark when that thing fires up
>
>Robert wrote:
>
>> The PE-103 (or at least the two that I used to run regularly)
>> is pretty quiet as medium size dynamotors go.
>
>I spent many an hour and a mile in an old Ford when I was a kid in the
>1950s and 1960s with my dad (W5WRR/SK) using a PE-103 for his
>Multi-Elmac AF-67.
>
>The PE-103 was probably THE most desirable surplus dynamotor ever for
>hams operating mobile for twenty years after WWII and were pretty
>expensive in surplus. I don't recall any particularly notable
>objectionable noise levels from it, compared to any other similar-size
>dynamotor... like a DY-31/ARC-2.
>
>I have not powered up the PE-103 for my SCR-284.
>
>Mike / KK5F
>______________________________________________________________
>MRCA mailing list
>Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/mrca
>Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>Post: mailto:MRCA at mailman.qth.net
>
>This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/mrca/attachments/20171003/111208a7/attachment.html>