9V Batteries from the Early Days of Transistor Radios

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

All the time in these NGs I've read PP-3 for the description of 9V
transistor radio batteries. However, when I was a kid, we knew them by
the description shown in the pic in the URLs below. Usually BL-006P or
MN-006P for the Heathkits which used manganese or alkaline, I believe.
In any case, I had never heard of PP-3 until the newsgroups.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=932&item=65015363
93&rd=1

Click on the supersize below the pic, or for a close up, try this:

http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/miscmike/DSC02778.J
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I think Eveready had some number, like 1602, that they used, and some
other makers had something similar.

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[Laurence Taylor]

"Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" wrote:

All the time in these NGs I've read PP-3 for the description of 9V
transistor radio batteries. However, when I was a kid, we knew them by
the description shown in the pic in the URLs below. Usually BL-006P or
MN-006P for the Heathkits which used manganese or alkaline, I believe.
In any case, I had never heard of PP-3 until the newsgroups.
(...)
I think Eveready had some number, like 1602, that they used, and some
other makers had something similar.

I think PP3 is the Ever Ready number (or Ever Eady as they now call
themselves!); 006P I assume to be the Japanese or US designation
(along with C, D, etc, where the UK used numbers).

If I remember rightly, 1602 was the Duracell number. (Duracell used to
give all their batteries strange and hard-to remember numbers).

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LAurence

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[John Stewart]

"Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" wrote:

All the time in these NGs I've read PP-3 for the description of 9V
transistor radio batteries. However, when I was a kid, we knew them by
the description shown in the pic in the URLs below. Usually BL-006P or
MN-006P for the Heathkits which used manganese or alkaline, I believe.
In any case, I had never heard of PP-3 until the newsgroups.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=932&item=65015363
93&rd=1

Click on the supersize below the pic, or for a close up, try this:

http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/miscmike/DSC02778.J
PG

I think Eveready had some number, like 1602, that they used, and some
other makers had something similar.

A Burgess listing from 1960 shows 2U6.
An Eveready listing from 1968 shows theirs as 216.
Both are Zinc-Carbon. Lots of Hg batteries listed.

Cheers, John Stewart