5P32E Ch= HS-559

Motorola Inc. (ex Galvin Mfg.Co. Chicago); Schaumburg (IL)

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  • Year
  • 1957 ?
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 84374

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 4
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)
  • Tuned circuits
  • 6 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Line / Batteries (any type) / (7.5; 90); AC/DC 117 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 4 inch = 10.2 cm
  • Material
  • Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 5P32E Ch= HS-559 - Motorola Inc. ex Galvin Mfg.Co
  • Shape
  • Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Beitman Radio Diagrams Vol. 18, 1958
  • Author
  • Model page created by Egon Penker. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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Fellow Radiophiles,

As I was organizing some battery tubes in my replacement stock, I came across the 1DN5.

This is a very unusual remote cut-off Audio pentode for use in AC/DC portable radios that use a 50mA filament series string. There is also an additional anode near the negative end of the filament to serve as the diode detector.

Our database shows two Motorola AC/DC portable chassis that use this tube for the same purpose: HS-559 and HS-647.

The filaments of the 4 tubes in the radio are wired in series starting from ground:

1R5 pentagrid converter

1DN5 Detector, AVC, Audio preamp

1U4 IF pentode

3V4 audio power

The voltage at the top of the 50mA filamentary string is 7.5VDC, which may come for the A battery, or from a high power 2K resistor tied the +95V, which dissipates about 5W when the radio is under AC power.

The 1DN5 is the audio preamp, but with the AVC voltage applied to the control grid as it's source of bias. The gain of the audio preamp depends on the strength of the station. Strong stations will produce an AVC voltage that reduces the 1DN5 gain.

Just as unusual, there is no AVC applied to the IF pentode 1U4. The control grid of this tube is fixed-biased about 1.5V below the negative end of it's filamentary cathode.

Finally, the 1R5 pentagrid converter tube get's it's RF grid bias via 3.3Meg from the AVC voltage that is developed by the detector anode inside the 1DN5. But this detector diode sits 1.5V higher than usual, because it's cathode is the second filament in the string. This added +1.5V serves as what is known as "AVC delay". This means that the 1R5 will not start having it's gain reduced until at least -1.5V of incomming carrier overcomes the +1.5V "AVC delay".

The AVC voltage that appears at the RF input grid of the 1R5 is also applied directly to the remote cutoff grid of the audio pentode in the 1DN5. Keep in mind that it's cathode is second-up in the filamentary string, so with zero input signal, the AVC voltage appears at the 1DN5 remote cutoff grid as a -1.5V bias. As signals are tuned-in that produce more than -1.5V of detected carrier, then the grid of the 1R5 pentagrid converter and the remote-cutoff grid of the 1DN5 audio pentode will go negative together to attenuate the volume.

One last peculiarity is that the 1DN5 is mounted on a Tinker-Toy module, which contains most of the resistors and capacitors in  the radio.

Summarizing, the AVC voltage is applied in the usual negative Feedback fashion to the 1R5 pentagrid converter, but is applied in Feedforward to the 1DN5 audio preamp.

Why all this strange grid bias and AVC complication? It saves the cost of a power transformer. Without a power transformer, the least inneficient way to drive the DC filaments is as a series string drawing 50mA. The series string keeps the dissipation in the 2k filament ballast resistor at only 5W. If all filaments were wired in parallel, the ballast resistor would have to supply 250mA and dissipate 20W.

Regards,

-Joe

The correct reference for one Motorola radio is HS-559, not HS-599.

-Joe

Joe Sousa, 28.Aug.10

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