Building Eliminators

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 12, 3 October 1930, Page 28

Building Eliminators

BEwARD of the crudely built home made eliminator. A Melbourne writer says:-‘"‘A well-designed battery eliminator, properly used, is a perfectly safe part of the receiving gear. One ean rely absolutely upon the products of well-known firms. The type of elim inator to avoid is that put together by someone with little or no knowledge of electricity or of the precautions requir ed when the lighting mains are used for supplying current to the wireless set. The writer has seen in recent months several eliminators which, to say the least, were positively dangerous, Most of them were turned out by ambitious youngsters in their spare time with a view to earning a little extra money. Plain brass terminals, paper dielectric condensers intended only for comparatively low voltages, leads of the commonest and most poorly insulated and most inadequately shielded.