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Article #20656Re: Battery Sizes
From: Isaac S Wingfield
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1989 20:47
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1989 20:47
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Those batteries that were 1.6 to 2 times the size of "D" cells were, I think, "G" size. Back in the early days of tube type radios, several batteries were needed, and to make it simple for Joe Public, they were called by letters: "A" battery for the filaments; low voltage, high current "B" battery for the plate supply; high V, low I "C" battery for the grid supply; medium V, very low I I think you were confusing the "A" (filament) battery with the "A" size (which I've never seen, maybe because all filament supplies were called "A"). Regards, Isaac isw@cup.portal.com
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