400F DeLuxe series & 1600F De Luxe plain cabinet general, samples & unknown

Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth

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  • Year
  • 1937/1938
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  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 35029

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 23
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 465 kHz
  • Tuned circuits
  • 9 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave and 2 x Short Wave.
  • Details
  • Record-Changer, both sides!
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • 2 Loudspeakers
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 400F DeLuxe series & 1600F De Luxe plain cabinet general, samples & unknown - Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN
  • Shape
  • Console with any shape - in general
  • Notes

  • 400F DeLuxe series & 1600F De Luxe plain cabinet
    general, samples & unknown
    This model page is for collecting uncertain or unknown pictures or facts for a given season. Can also contain the different pictures for the different models from sets of this season.
    For season F, 1937/38 there were at least the following general models offered:
    500F, 405F, 406F, 407F, 408F, 304F, 305F, 204F and 1600F plain cabinet for a conceiled installation.
    Known details for 1600F are found here. This model type started in season "B" and ended in season "G".  For season E and F there was offered as model 160 also the "turn-over record changer" only.
    Chassis:
    Tuner with the following 12 tubes: 6K7, 6K7, 6L7, 6K7, 6G5, 6K7, 6H6, 6K7, 6H6, 6J7, 6C5, 5Z4 - according to Rider's 8; Bass Amplifier with 6N7G, 2 x 6C5G, 6F6G, 2 x 6L6G and 83 (25 watts, driving the 18 inch speaker, schematic N-920) and a Treble Amplifier (schematic N-919) with 6F6G, 2 x 6L6G and 5Z3. See also the rare model 500-FR which has on top of that "Middle Register Amplifier" with the same tubes as the "treble amplifier".
    See the other model pages under their model type name.
    For an overview about the cabinets during the different seasons see this article.

    The Capehart 400 series were introduced for season 1931/32 without suffix, followed by A 1932/33, B 1933/34 etc. through to season 1948-50. See here the "Common information for the Capehart model pages for the 1930s and 1940s".

  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb

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