Zapping Laptop batteries

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Fri Nov 15 21:00:01 2002

 Yeah that was just a lazy typer's shorthand for LapTop. I had forgotten that
term. I've got an old tube portable with the 4-pin plug, that used them. Where
the term B voltage came from I believe. You can still get them but they are
very expensive. The battery was likely bigger than this portable itself. I've
thought of using 2 power supplies to see if I could get it working. I've also got
a raft of old tubes(valves--much more descriptive)

Lawrence

> Andy Holt wrote:
>
> > > What's a LT battery ?
> > >
> > To me (and, I expect, to Tony) it powers the heaters in a valve (tube to
> > those across the herring pond) portable radio :-) An almost obsolete term.
> >
> > In the message you were looking at, it appears to be LapTop (normally a
> > Nicad)
> >
> > Andy
>
> I seem to remember a huge battery with a four-pin-socket, that you got
> HT with your LT, and the HT was 90V. Half the weight of a good old fashioned
> radio seemed to be made up of the battery, and it always seemed a very long way
> home from the jumble sale (I believe that the over-the-ponders call these
> 'rummage sales'). At the age of 9 or 10, the sheer size and weight of the radios
> meant that you always did something with them after you had fought them into the
> house...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>


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