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John Rudd:

--- Quote from: John Swift on July 18, 2010, 07:36:39 PM ---Hi Rob ,
            I have made a medium wave  transistor radio with denco coils in the past
later adding a shortwave converter to the mw radio tuned to 1.6MHz
 I would like to have a go with a valve (tube) TRF radio when I have the time

 

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Ahhh.Denco coils... ( Clacton on Sea Essex... :clap: )

Reminds me of when I were a lad reading Gilbert Davey's book  'Fun with Radio'.... a single valve trf receiver using a DF91 ( or IT4 if you like)   Happy days...

FWIW, my first ever radio I built was a crystal set that my dad bought me...it needed a soldering iron for assembly..Not deterred by this, I managed to'dry' assemble it and have it work... :clap:

John Swift:
Hi Jack
         you have not given any details about your stepper motor ,  is it a unipolar or bipolar motor ?
 if you just want to just test the stepper motor out for now
try some thing like the 3187KT bipolar motor driver or 3179KT unipolar motor drive kits from Quasarelectronics.com  
with a simple  ne555 ic  oscillator  providing step pulses ( could be a modified audio signal generator kit )

I'm a few steps behind you ,
I have thought my fist step is to provide a variable speed drive to the lead screw
to get a practical feel for the torque and maximum speed of the stepper motors

 but first I need to get my old ( new to me ) lathe going first  



Hi John ,
                would that be the green octal plug in ones

   those battery radio valves  work ok of 3 or 4   9v batterys  for the HT supply
you can find scans of the old 90v batterys  if you want to make your own



                                John Swift

kwackers:
Jack, I know you want to make your own - but if it's any help here's one I made earlier...
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47007
There's source in the first post which might help too.


Re: the 90v radio batteries, a few years ago I made one for a guy I knew. Basically just a set of rechargeables and inverter built into the case of an old battery with a socket on the bottom to charge it up. Worked a treat and even losing the space for the inverter it still ran far longer than the original battery.

raynerd:
I converted my 4" vertex using Kwackers divider...it is great -  http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=2242.0

John Rudd:

--- Quote from: John Swift on July 22, 2010, 07:07:09 PM ---


Hi John ,
                would that be the green octal plug in ones

   those battery radio valves  work ok of 3 or 4   9v batterys  for the HT supply
you can find scans of the old 90v batterys  if you want to make your own

John Swift

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Ummm.I though they used the B9A plug/socket arrangement...? :scratch:

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