Bluetooth Modding my Antique Radio! | Tech Logs #4

Bluetooth Modding my Antique Radio! | Tech Logs #4 | Mastergeko4

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In this video, I'll be showing you all how I Bluetooth modded my vintage AEG Super so that it can play music from your phone or computer!
(This video was filmed a while ago, please excuse any timeline continuity errors.)
Link to buy Bluetooth Module (not an affiliate): www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08B...
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Music Used:
Vintage Ocean - Philip Gross

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@pumpkins8476 3 ай бұрын

Hahaha awesome test song! Nice tutorial. Thanks.

@HugoLaStrange 7 ай бұрын

now this is exactly what i was looking for! Thank you for your help!

@dysfunctionalwombat 2 жыл бұрын

I should see if I can do this to my General Electric Mantle Midget, it's AM only and well, all I get is hearing people at 3:00 AM radio going on about "how ghosts entered them" so yeah this would probably be a much better use

@CrazyTechReviews 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! That's a pretty cool modification and it certainly makes that radio much more useful for you. Also, I'm not an expert or anything, but you may be able to pull 5 volts from somewhere inside of the radio or maybe tuck a DC Power supply inside of it somewhere.

@Mastergeko4 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I spent a while trying to find a suitable 5v rail but it proved unsuccessful. I’m fine with running a phone charger out though.

@kwacz Жыл бұрын

these old radios run on hundreds of volts. there is no 5 volt in there. the transformer steps up the wall voltage before it goes to the tubes and back down at the speaker. You could mount a 5 volt power supply inside the radio and splice into the line cord internally and you would never even know unless you took it apart.

@CrazyTechReviews Жыл бұрын

@@kwacz that’s basically what I was trying to say.

@bofor3948 10 ай бұрын

There is a low voltage source in that radio. The tube heater filiment winding on the supply transformer. It will usually be about 6.3v but AC and you will need a rectifier, smoothing circuit and a regulator to provide 5v DC to the BT module. But as you say there are hundreds of volts available in that set. You MUST KNOW what you are doing. btw if that old radio is still working and it hasn't yet had most of its older capacitors changed, I would advise doing so or getting it done. There are several capacitors that are cheap to change but can cause total loss of the transformers or tubes if they go short or leaky. @@kwacz

@kwacz 10 ай бұрын

@@bofor3948 yes, in mine it is 12.6vac but the negative is referenced to b- which means they are tied together. I tried using this as a source for a 5vdc step down supply i made, but it caused a ground loop which drew large amount current due to the audio ground not being isolated. I just elected to use a 1va transformer and rectify filter step down to 5vdc. Worked great. I tried a phone charger but the radio did not like the switching supply in these and buzzed loudly. So i just used a transformer and made a linear supply using lm340 to get me to a regulated 5 volts from there.