[Amps] Terminology Question

[wb8jkr@juno.com]

  The B always stood for "B" battery or the higher
voltage supply, and the "C" was the C battery  
was the bias source. I least that's what I remember it
being, could be wrong. The "A" battery? dunno, maybe
a filament supply?

Mark  WB8JKR


On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:51:03 EST RMead100@aol.com writes:
> 
> What is the origin of the B+ term in amp/radio/power supply 
> terminology. I 
> understand it to be the high voltage supply, but I do not know the 
> origin of 
> the designation and that has finally bothered me at age 52. It seems 
> to me 
> the only voltage referred to with this type of 
> shorthand.........i.e. no A+ 
> or -; no B-, no C + or -. 
> 
> 
> R Meadows
> k8BUX
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