Anybody see one of these before? Little Max

[Originalthor]

So a friend of mine gave this to me for my suburban. Pretty cool old school inverter. Anybody ever seen one or know on how to hook up?

 

[Midnightmoon]

Not the same model, but there used to be something similar in an old fire truck that our department had back when I joined in 1991. It was an early 60's tanker/pumper combo and had a similar style module in the radio compartment by the pump panel.

 

[Originalthor]

Its quite interesting and has so many wires. Theres eons of new technology in the inverter world these days but thought it might be cool to put in my truck and I like old school things.

 

[Ellie Niner]

It took a minute for this to register in my brain, but what you have is actually a control panel/end point receptacles for use with a special alternator... Note that the label on the side says that it's for use only with MJC-6c (and a couple of other similar alternators only, and that its output is 110vDC (instead of AC) And also a command to only operate switch at idle. Outside of a couple old tube radios I have, and incandescent lights, I'm having a hard time coming up with much else that'll operate off of line voltage DC.

It's a really cool looking piece of vintage gear, but without the alternator that mates with it, you're kind of stuck in the weeds.

 

[Originalthor]

Thanks for the info on it Ellie. I thought is was something you would see on a cucv. I kinda figured it would be a obsolete piece but cool to put on a wall of fame that I got going.

 

[Snoots]

You don't want to get bit by 110VDC. Your friends will surely buy beers for your widow and console her in other ways.

 

[Originalthor]

I've been jolted a fair bit back in the day when I was working with a good old Ukrainian electrician. He did everything live darn near but neglected to tell me so I would go to hook up stuff and strip wire and It was a rude awaking but you learn from the best and always play with wires like there live cause you just never know if someone turned on that breaker without you knowing.

 

[Snoots]

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and can be easily surveyed, the test equipment has one, and as a
consequence, bringeth much woe to thy supply officer.

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this incurreth the wrath of thy department head and bringeth the fury of
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Petty Officer).

 

[Dan Brown]

I used to have one similar to this one. As I recall it came with the equipment so that you could actually weld with it, too.

 

[SquareRoot]

You don't want to get bit by 110VDC. Your friends will surely buy beers for your widow and console her in other ways.

We call him "Sancho" in these parts.

 

[Originalthor]

I used to have one similar to this one. As I recall it came with the equipment so that you could actually weld with it, too.

Really m. That is very interesting. I always wanted to do a weldanator since I don't have ac. And put it here like this