"Rambling Man" wrote in message
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"NSM" wrote in message
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"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.

N



I'm not too far behind you guys! I got into electronics when Vibrators
were
still in, but being phased out. I'm betting the guy with this idea in mind
already has an inverter! If not, he'll have to get one.

Thanks again,

RM



Somewhere I think I still have an old 1950's power inverter which uses a
vibrator. Wish I still had the original box it was in when I got it at a
garage sale probably 15+ years ago.