{"id":280,"date":"2018-01-20T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=280"},"modified":"2018-01-29T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:26:07","slug":"roberts-radio-56462-with-amplion-convette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/roberts-radio-56462-with-amplion-convette\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts Radio 56462 with Amplion Convette"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2078-1024x868.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2078-1024x868.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2078-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2078-768x651.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2078.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberts Valve Portable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This beauty of a valve radio was bought for just \u00a32 from a boot sale. It&#8217;s a Roberts, valve, shortwave, and portable..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-273 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2085-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2085-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2085-768x565.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2085-1024x753.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberts Valve Portable rear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Valves and batteries are not an easy marriage. Typically you need over 100 Volts at a fairly low current for most of the electronics and a low voltage high current supply for the valve heaters. Such batteries are large, expensive, heavy, and not easy to find these days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-279 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2104-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2104-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2104-768x523.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2104-1024x697.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMGP2104.jpg 2021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amplicon Convette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are willing to sacrifice portability there is another way. Instead of batteries you can add a box of electronics which creates the necessary supply from the mains. This radio was fitted with an Amplion Convette battery\u00a0 eliminator.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely though this radio is, I would not use it daily. While i could probably get it going, there is potentially a lot of work involved and the safety implications of those tubes make it a difficult job. I Chose to pass on it and a lucky eBay punter with more time on their hands snapped this up for less that \u00a340.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This beauty of a valve radio was bought for just \u00a32 from a boot sale. It&#8217;s a Roberts, valve, shortwave, and portable..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portable","category-radio","category-repair","category-valves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}