Review of the Poitivient AB Battery TransOceanic Converter Battery

Runs on nine D cells, with an extra cell for the dial light or extra voltage, depending on which TransOceanic you have. Output is 9 volts A, 90 volts B.

A VERY well made product.

You can find it on ebay or get hold of Jim at abbattery@aol.com

I highly recommend it

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[TheLegoboy1997]

Hi- Sort of off topic (but at the same time not). I would've sent a PM but I can't figure out how to on this darn iPod. Anyways, I have a 1953 Silvertone 5 tuber portable that takes a 756 A-B battery, but I can't figure out what the pinouts on it are to wire it up. Any help is greatly appreciated! -Sean

[batterymaker]

@TheLegoboy1997 Throw me an email at batterymaker at gmail.com and I'll send you a pinout.

[rmx77]

i happen to have an 8g005 and i think the model i have was only designed to run off of battery only yet i got something off of ac. i still have the original manual that came with the 1941 model zenith. it does need work badly but to work on this radio its a pain and its an 8 tube radio. all the caps are in the bottom and are very very very close together and there are tons of them and so there isnt much space to even remove any caps. idk how i would even work on it

[batterymaker]

@rmx77 Start small with a simple portable, then work your way up. And yes, 8G's are a pain in the rear to work on.

[shango066]

Interesing video and battery, I would be interested in how long it will run the radio vs the 9 volts. I have one of those moral bulider sets i need to get going and would love to run it on batteries.

[lionelguy]

Hi Bill, I did the same thing you did when I received mine about 5 years ago. Unscrewed the 4 screws and removed the cover, looked inside, saw the perf board with a few components, and decided that was far enough. The converter works perfectly and lasts for hours. Highly recommended for T.O. collectors.

[rmx77]

@batterymaker so the wire is laying bare in the radio like with open soulder points where u know someone did a bad job so the length of wires were 2 shorter wires to make one long one for each speaker terminal. also the signal it receives is a very very very weak volume high on the dial am anything lower then i think 1000 am and the radio goes dead. also i cant even get anything on any shortwave band its dead silent

[rmx77]

@batterymaker well i did work on one already which was an old ge for a guy and i made it work pretty good it might have stood a recap but it worked ok for what it was to be used for. the 8g i have has super weak signal and super weak volume and it looks like someone replaced the speaker at one time cause what they did is poorly wired it into the transformer thats in the radio by taking 2 pieces of wire per speaker terminal and souldering the connection points including where the wire joins

[Lachlant1984]

When you talk about the converter producing noise, I assume you mean RTF noise that causes interference to radio reception and it can cause problems when listening to radio stations, right? What kind of noise do you hear with some of these converters you speak of?