L-12 9 Tube Battery Receiver

Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New York (NY)

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  • Year
  • 1932/1933
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 45986
    • alternative name: Wholesale Radio

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 9
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 175 kHz; 3 AF stage(s)
  • Tuned circuits
  • 6 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage and/or dry batteries / 4,5 & 180 & -22.5 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: L-12 9 Tube Battery Receiver - Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New
  • Shape
  • Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 24 x 42 x 14.5 inch / 610 x 1067 x 368 mm
  • Notes
  • The Lafayette model L-11 is a 9 tube battery superhet as chassis with permanent magnetic dynamic speaker - less batteries and tubes. For the same scheamtic (Rider's 5-10, Form 378-J) L-12 is the chassis with console cabinet less tubes. They have a push-pull output. "A" = 2 to 4 volts, "B" 135 volts, "C" = 10.5 volts. Easy vision tuning meter, automatic bleeder circuit, full range tone control. Sensitivity is 2 millivolts per meter.

    Tubes and Accessories: 9 tubes $ 9.75, Eveready 2 volt Air Cell $ 5.95, Set of "B" and "C" batteries (4 x 45 volt "B" 4.5 volts and "C" 22.5 volts. See picture details and see details and summaries for the models of this catalog no. 53 for 1933 (Season 1932/33).
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 44.00 $
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 5 = ca. 1934 and before
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Lafayette Radio Catalog (Lafayette catalog no. 53 for 1933, copyrighted 1932, page 20.)

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