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Old 9th Dec 2018, 6:18 pm   #1
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Default Obsolete battery data

Like many here, I suspect, I have a number of devices that use batteries that are no longer made.

Does anyone have any (accurate) sources of information on obsolete cells/batteries. Things like

Dimensions
Voltage
Connections (base/cap, terminals, brass strips, socket (pinout))

So fair I've got a trader sheet that gives some, the back pages of one volume of R&TVS, a couple of Home Radio catalogues and a page from a book on radio control (it would appear). These do not always agree, and together they are certainly not complete. Were there battery manufacturer's catalogues listing their products ? (I assume so). Have any survived?

I am most interested in the batteries for portable valve radios, but of course information on torch batteries, transistor radio batteries, etc, etc, etc would be interesting.
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Old 9th Dec 2018, 6:31 pm   #2
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Try these sites

http://www.blaukatz.com/
http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/batteries/
http://www.the-thompson-brown-family...eriesframe.htm

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Old 9th Dec 2018, 6:41 pm   #3
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https://archive.org/details/CROMPTON...dEd./page/n641

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Old 9th Dec 2018, 6:52 pm   #4
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In U.K you have cellpacksolutions

https://cellpacksolutions.co.uk

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Old 9th Dec 2018, 6:54 pm   #5
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Thanks for those sites. I've looked at them, and alas, there are sizes of batteries that I have used that do not appear on any of them.

I think what I need are some old (going back to at least the 1950s) battery catalogues, if any have survived.
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Unfortunately, that last one disappeared a while back. I get a string of Chinese, along with the English statement that "the domain is for sale". It's a shame, as it was a useful resource.
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Thanks Dave. I will update my list.

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I think this site might have the same battery info as Alistair's broken link:


http://vintageradio.me.uk/radconnav/homerad.htm
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Old 14th Dec 2018, 9:38 pm   #9
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Have you seen Practical wireless Jan 1973 ? https://www.americanradiohistory.com...PW-1973-01.pdf #60 also in that well worn copy of mine is the formation the of BVWS in "Going Back" #62 and a miniature radio using the then new ZN414.


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