AM/FM radio powered by kerosene lantern

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OldMan

Candy’s dandy, but a back rub is quicker.
I have not seen this on TB2K (but please delete if dupe)

The following is a snip from: http://www.navitron.org.uk/TEG_lantern.htm
...minus pictures and more info:

Thermo-Electric Generator (TEG) KEROSENE LANTERN WITH RADIO

featured in December 05 issue of Audio Designline! CLICK FOR INFO
GENERATE LIGHT, ELECTRICITY AND LISTEN TO THE RADIO!!
RADIO BUILT INTO BASE OF LANTERN.

This fantastic product is highly unusual, and unique in the marketplace. Originally invented by the Russians during the 1960s, and used extensively throughout the Cold War, these lanterns have never really seen the light of day in the Western World. The unit had disappeared from production until a few years ago, when it reappeared on the market in small volumes. After reading about the original Russian lantern in a 1970s alternative energy publication called 'Mother Earth News', I decided to hunt down a manufacturer. It took over 6months to find it, but here it is!

It consists of a Hurricane lantern that has been modified with a TEG (Thermoelectric Generator), which produces a small amount of power which can be used to power a compact FM/AM radion built into the base of the lantern.



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Trivium Pursuit

Trivium Pursuit

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Every prepper around here has got to be drooling at this moment. Lehman's is surely missing the boat on this one!
 
Tundra Gypsy

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That is great! How much does something like that cost? And who is the manufacturer of it? I wonder how many are available...I'm getting into line for one!!
 
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Rusty Shackelford said:
Recently I also purchased an old tube radio....effective EMP sheilded...GOT TUBES??
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I haven't tried this yet, but the old "All American Five" 5-tube radios (basically about 99% of the AM radios sold before the mid-60's) should work fine on DC (but only with the plug inserted one direction). About 100 volts should be more than adequate.

I don't know if 9-volt batteries would provide sufficient current, but I suspect they would. So about 10 or so wired in series should work). I'm pretty sure about 60 D-cells in series would work, and about 8 car batteries in series should work very well.

Of course, an inverter would be more convenient. But if it's EMP you're worried about, then the inverter might be vulnerable.

Again, I haven't tried it, but it ought to work. It will only work with the polarity one direction. If you have the polarity backwards, it won't cause any damage. The tubes will light up but it won't work. If that's the case, simply reverse the polarity.

Oh, and the subject of a thermocouple-powered radio has been discussed on TB2K before. Here's a link to an old World Book Encyclopedia science project for making a rather crude and inefficient one, but it's enough to put out a few milliamps:

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~weinfurt/thermoradio.htm

Edited to add: Here's the last thread that discussed this general topic:

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=171444&highlight=candle+radio
 
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