Giant 9volt battery

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

 

On Friday, 19 April 2019 01:01:35 UTC+1, tub...@myshop.com wrote:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

Some people scan the label so replicas can be made.


NT

 

[Boris Mohar]

I remember testing one of those with my tongue. Once.


On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:01:31 -0500, tubeguy@myshop.com wrote:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place



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[Peter Gierschner]

Am 19.04.2019 um 02:01 schrieb tubeguy@myshop.com:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

Just like this with 75V:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/varta_pertrix_nr_58.html
?

 

[J.B. Wood]

On 4/18/19 8:01 PM, tubeguy@myshop.com wrote:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....
two 1.5
I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

Hello, and I once owned a 1950s era Westinghouse 4-tube (1R5, 1U4, 1U5,
3Q4 low voltage filaments) AM band portable radio that used one of those
batteries as the "B" battery and two 1.5V cells as the "A" battery for
the tube filaments. IIRC it had a fairly large loudspeaker for a small,
lightweight portable radio and the audio fidelity was very good.
Sincerely,

--
J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

 

[Lucifer]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:01:31 -0500, tubeguy@myshop.com wrote:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

I had a device which contained what looked like 6 volt lantern
batteries but were 1.5 volts each.

 

[Tim Schwartz]

Hi all,

The PP9 is a large (much bigger than a standard 9V, also known as a
PP3) that is still available. Ever Ready in the UK had a range of these
the PP stood for "Power Pack". You can look at it on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-volt_battery

Regards,
Tim


On 4/18/2019 8:01 PM, tubeguy@myshop.com wrote:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

 

On Friday, 19 April 2019 11:55:45 UTC+1, Lucifer wrote:

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:01:31 -0500, tubeguy@myshop.com wrote:

I've seen pictures but never had a Type B (67.5 volt battery) in hand. I
just got one at an auction in a box of tubes I bought. It looks just
like a giant 9v battery. Same sort of clips on top, just a tad larger.

It's a RCA No. VS 218.

Of course it's dead, but I'm keeping it because it's kind of
historic....

I imagine it dates back to the 1930s or 40s. But there is no leakage and
it's package is clean.

I just calculated. It must contain 45 cells inside its cardboard
container.

I had a device which contained what looked like 6 volt lantern
batteries but were 1.5 volts each.

AD4 maybe. There were others too.

 

[J.B. Wood]

As a slight digression, besides that Westinghouse tube portable radio,
one of my relatives had a 1960s era LW/AM/SW transistor portable (in a
fabric covered wood case) made by Reela in France. It used an Ever
Ready (not Eveready) PP11 battery
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileP11-PP3-batteries.jpg). This
battery had two separate 4.5V sections but the radio used both in
series. We couldn't locate a stateside source for the battery so we
replaced the battery connector with a standard 9V snap-on. The bands
were selectable via front panel pushbuttons. The selectable bands were
Grandes Ondes (GO) 150-300 kHz, Petites Ondes (PO) 520-1600 kHz and
Ondes Courtes (OC) 5-20 MHz. Sincerely,

--
J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com