That's your problem right there. You are trying to run a 12 volt radio on 6
volts.

"Maximus" wrote in message
k.net...
Two 6 volt lantern battieries connected parallel - positive to positive
and
negative to negative and the positive lead to the positive terminal on the
connector, and the negative lead to the negative terminal . I don't
remember
the part number of the adaptor, and I returned it. It fit into the hole
properly but evidently did not connect right with soemthing. The line cord
does not disconnect from the radio. It says 13.8 volts on the back of the
radio but the PDF for the radio says 12 volts.

Ever see a bird get annihilated by an exploding insulator g ?

When the trees hit the wires around here the explosion echoes impressively
throughout the entire valley, the sky lights up like Phu Bai during
incoming
and of course the lights go out LOL.

Il Dolce Far Niente
"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
.com...
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:03:16 -0600, Maximus wrote
(in message ):

I don't have the money to buy a motorcycle battery and trickle charger
so I
bought to

two? (not being nitpicky here - we need to know if it is one or two (or
more
batteries).

6 volt lantern batteries and an adaptor

What adapter?

Come to think of it, how much voltage does a 394 need on DC operation?


to plug into the dc plug
on the back of the radio. I disconnected the AC cord from the wall

On some - not all - the AC poswer supply cord has to be disconnected
from
the
radio.



and
applied the batteries to the adaptor and tried to trun on the radio -
nada
s.

I know I am missing something miniscule so I am hoping one of you
electronical amtateur radio folks

[chuckle] This is about the only rec radio ng where the majority of
people
are not "hams" (but we like them anyway).

can help me out. The radio works fine on
AC, but every year we have a significant outtage and having battery
power
for my baby would be a lot of fun s while other things are not
working
which migfht be sources of interference. Thanks in advance



Yep. The last place I lived - whenever there was a storm - my wife and I
would go out on the front porch to hear the transformers explode. There
was
nearly always one hit and, generally but not always, one that would
affec
us.

I took count one year and it worked out to an outage every 6 weeks.


Il Dolce Far Niente



/gray/