"t.hoehler" wrote in message
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| And if you need a mobile setup, a 200 w el cheapo inverter will take care
of
| that 120 vac el cheapo VCR. I use on in the van all the time, along with a
| small telly, works like a hose. Today's modified sine wave inverters are
| just plain outstanding! You had to grow up in the fifties like me to
realize
| how difficult it was to operate 120 vac equipment in the car. A real PIA
| with the old vibrator units, noise, buzz, hash, you name it, it had it!

First one I worked on used tubes to invert from 250 VDC to VAC!

Of course I worked on lots of vibrator car radios too. Then there were the
hybrids with tubes with 12 volts on the plates and transistors for the AF
section. Lotta weird junk before transistors could do it all.

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