Vintage U.S. Army Telephone EE-3-B

skeeter4206 · 11-01-2015, 09:13 PM

I put a voltage meter on the L1 and L2 terminals and yes it does have some DC voltage when cranked. Curious about the batteries. When cranking, do the batteries store the voltage so you don't have to keep on cranking to talk on the phone? I'm just trying to grasp the whole concept of how this thing actually works.

The (3) terminal poles with Green, yellow and Red labeled beneath them is where the actual hand held phone receiver connects. But what actually connects to the L1 and L2 terminals when in operation? They have wing nuts on them for easy connection and disconnection. So is there something that I'm missing that makes the whole thing work the way its meant to work?

Another dumb question, when I was a kid a remember my pops talking about fishing with old crank style phones where the fish would get shocked and you just scoop them up. Is this the type of contraption that would be used to do that? Not that I would do that by all means. Just old memories of my pops from way back. [I] never really knew what the hell he was talking about. bake then I was thinking how does our kitchen phone be used to catch fish. bake then I thought my dad was just pulling my leg. Now seeing that it can produce a current... That's just wrong in fishing that way and I would guess highly illegal.

11-01-2015, 09:13 PM	#6
skeeter4206 User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 448 Thanks: 52 Thanked 88 Times in 49 Posts	I put a voltage meter on the L1 and L2 terminals and yes it does have some DC voltage when cranked. Curious about the batteries. When cranking, do the batteries store the voltage so you don't have to keep on cranking to talk on the phone? I'm just trying to grasp the whole concept of how this thing actually works. The (3) terminal poles with Green, yellow and Red labeled beneath them is where the actual hand held phone receiver connects. But what actually connects to the L1 and L2 terminals when in operation? They have wing nuts on them for easy connection and disconnection. So is there something that I'm missing that makes the whole thing work the way its meant to work? Another dumb question, when I was a kid a remember my pops talking about fishing with old crank style phones where the fish would get shocked and you just scoop them up. Is this the type of contraption that would be used to do that? Not that I would do that by all means. Just old memories of my pops from way back. [I] never really knew what the hell he was talking about. bake then I was thinking how does our kitchen phone be used to catch fish. bake then I thought my dad was just pulling my leg. Now seeing that it can produce a current... That's just wrong in fishing that way and I would guess highly illegal.