[MRCA] SCR-284 PE-103

[Tim]

I would agree that the PE-103 in my SCR-284 system is very quiet..Sounds
like "precision"....
Certainly much quieter than that jeep engine running to keep the poor
battery charged...

If one is "noisy" it may be because the bearings were not re-lubed
properly...

Dynamotors - The Song of Our People  !   LOL

Tim
N6CC

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:15 AM, Garret Scott <scottgs at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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
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