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30L6GT equivalent to 50L6GT
"K3HVG" wrote in message ... 110VDC on ships, Oh yes! Partner and I repairing radar on one such ship, bravely plugged in our trusty Weller soldering gun and pulled the trigger. Nothing for a few seconds, and then a little curl of smoke. When trigger was released, it hissed, breathing fire and sparks out of ALL the air cooling vent slots. Throwing it on the deck and stomping on it only aggravated the fireworks. Stone faced Skipper calmly pulled plug from wall, and I think he lost some admiration of our technical competence. Old Chief Lynn, W7LTQ Heh heh! Been there and done that. As the civilian navigator on the USNS Keithly (a re-commissioned and converted Navy cargo ship)in the late 60's, we had a number of newly-graduated "scientists" on board. The scientific and comms spaces had been converted via MG's for 120/240VAC. The staterooms were still 110DC. I shared a room with one such newby and, seeing that my Norelco shaver worked just fine, he plugged in his early style portable record player/radio/amp. When turned on, the requisite curl of smoke and bad odor emanated, ending the machine's life, early. I probably would not have liked his music, anyway. The thing is, you really had to force the plug into those DC sockets. As I recall, they're not quite the same as standard two-blade ac plugs. de K3HVG My now very distant memory is that DC outlets had either one prong perpendicular to the other or both "horrizontal" where standard sockets are parallel and "vertical". Occasionally, one sees sockets made to accomodate either type of plug. I think 220V sockets also had some variation of this pattern. Plugging 120V stuff into 220 will also get some interesting, although short lived, results. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles WB6KBL |
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