[MRCA] SCR-284 PE-103

[Dennis DuVall]

I would agree, very quiet.  A set of bad bearings is another matter…..

Dennis DuVall, W7QHO

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> On 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 <mailto: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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