[Chevelle-list] Automobile radio vibrator

[Dennis Hellebusch]

The vibrator you are talking about was used in older radio's to convert DC 
voltage into AC Voltage for the tube circuits to operate.
The new replacement for the old vibrator is a device call  solid state and 
they do not hum.

Dennis Hellebusch


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Shaw" <shawhollow at comcast.net>
To: "'The Chevelle Mailing List'" <chevelle-list at chevelles.net>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Automobile radio vibrator


> With the clear danger of aging myself, I also recall that prior to the 
> 60's
> and 70's there was a "vibrator"   in radios that was a mechanical relay 
> type
> device that converted the 6v DC to AC to run it through a transformer to
> increase the voltage for some purposed in the radio.  That went away with
> transistor radios and with 12v along with other technological advances.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chevelle-list-bounces at chevelles.net
> [mailto:chevelle-list-bounces at chevelles.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Speake
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:28 AM
> To: chevelle-list at chevelles.net
> Subject: [Chevelle-list] Automobile radio vibrator
> Importance: High
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> Don't hold me to this, but I think what this might be referring to is what
> they called back in the late 60's or early 70' as a reverb unit.  This was
> usually mounted in the trunk or where ever you found room and was 
> connected
> to your radio, 8 track or both and created a delay between the front and
> rear speakers giving a echoing type sound to simulate stereo.  I remember
> one of my friends installed one of these units in his at the time new
> Pontiac Tempest.  It really didn't sound too bad for the time.  Something
> different that didn't last very long.
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> Chuck Speake
> 1970 Chevelle Malibu
> Glen Ellyn, IL
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