[NJARC] Old Battery Question

[Scott Roberts]

Hi Guys-
As I mentioned, the 75% seemed suspect to me-  my DVM drives me nuts: I know the VTVM in my Precision set tester is reasonably accurate, enough for my needs. The set tester I am working on is one where it plugs into the tube socket, and the tube goes in the other end, and you get reading on all the voltages & resistances, etc for the tube socket.

I would enjoy working with newer test equipment. I haven't any much beyond the oscilloscope, but even that is old. I can't afford the newer stuff, and am quite happy getting the older stuff to work. It is less complicated, and the digital "True RMS" I have just annoys the daylights out of me- I like a readout which stabilizes- not spends all its time wandering about.

Anyway, I'm building a battery pack, actually two, and hope to have the set in operation tonight sometime.  Then I can finish building a test adapter(the set had all but one of its adapters- the one for octal. Figures. However, it has a standard 7 pin base, and I had one on a tube which was suspect, so I carefully removed it, and am mating it to an octal socket, having devined the proper pin-out for the octal adapter, based on the socket which clips on the end to go into the set. Once it is all together, I can probably get some reasonable readings on what the BC-348 is doing. Sorry it seems like I do things the hard way, but I have to work with what I have.

Scott


--- On Thu, 11/27/08, Marty Friedman <radiomf at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Marty Friedman <radiomf at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Old Battery Question
> To: "New Jersey Antique Radio Club" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 9:33 AM
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> Hi Scott,
> 75% CHARGE might be ok on a  battery, but if it is 75%
> VOLTAGE consider it dead for all practical purposes. I agree
> with John that you should restore one item at a time. RMS
> voltage should be of no consequence with DC voltages.
> Marty
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