I aquired one of these WS19 sets yesterday for a really low price! unfortunately missing the power supply. I wired it up to my bench supplies and it powered right up and works! I will of course do the usual capacitor checking, resistor checking, and other checking to make sure everything is as it should. I think I will build my own vibrator supply, I have plenty of vibrators that I have repaired and sockets for them so I figured why not make it battery operated :) The biggest challenge will be to get the HT2, which should be 550V. I could maybe just run everything off the same B+ but with reduced transmtiter wattage, which I don't mind as I will not really use it for transmitting anyways. I might do it once or twice with very short range antennas to demonstrate it with any other of my radios :)
I aquired one of these WS19 sets yesterday for a really low price! unfortunately missing the power supply. I wired it up to my bench supplies and it powered right up and works! I will of course do the usual capacitor checking, resistor checking, and other checking to make sure everything is as it should. I think I will build my own vibrator supply, I have plenty of vibrators that I have repaired and sockets for them so I figured why not make it battery operated :) The biggest challenge will be to get the HT2, which should be 550V. I could maybe just run everything off the same B+ but with reduced transmtiter wattage, which I don't mind as I will not really use it for transmitting anyways. I might do it once or twice with very short range antennas to demonstrate it with any other of my radios :)
I would replace those paper capacitor or at least check them for leakage.