NexGen: Getting the lab working

RE: NexGen: Getting the lab working

Former Member — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:35:13 GMT

This unit BTW if you look at the serial number you will notice the date code: 44 week of 1956 so this unit was built in the last week of October or the first week of November, which makes this power supply is 58 years old! and still works!!

Hi Cris,

That's not the way the serial numbers work. The 4456 is simply a numerical sequence number.

The first two digits are a date code. The " 3 " is the year and the " G " is the month.

In this case, there is some ambiguity, the year could be 1973, but I believe that the Regatran you have is from 19 sixty 3 and the month G is July.

RE: NexGen: Getting the lab working

jw0752 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:13:17 GMT

Hi Chris, If you had time to post another picture it would be fun to see the guts. I'm glad you got it working, usually missing fuses means someone else had trouble.

John

RE: NexGen: Getting the lab working

DAB — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:20:38 GMT

Yea, they knew how to make things last in those days.

From some of the older stuff I have played with, they appear to have been made to last forever, which given the age of some of the aircraft we are still flying bodes well.

DAB

RE: NexGen: Getting the lab working

shabaz — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:58:41 GMT

That supply looks nice : ) I think front panels layouts and markings were a work of art in the past. And even the panel meters have a more styled shape than modern components which would be square/rectangular!