• Year
  • 1932
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 33954
    • alternative name: Balkeit || First National
    • Brand: Overtone

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 5
  • Main principle
  • TRF without regeneration; Screengrid 1926-1935
  • Tuned circuits
  • 3 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Balkeit 52-1 - Fansteel Products Pfanstiehl,
  • Notes
  • Radio Colol. Guide notes a 55 (Duplex Diode / Triode) tube, that is not correct. It must be a 57 (Pentode), as seen in schematic.
    Balkeit, Balkite, Pfanstiehl are put together to Fansteel.
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 29.00 $
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 4 = ca. 1934 and before

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