Motorola Gmbh GPN 6106A power supply, any info?

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Motorola Gmbh GPN 6106A power supply, any info?

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Long shot, but anyway...
Does anyone know something about this very old very heavy german made power supply?
Google does not help, one thread with no info on batboard, nothing on repeater-builder looks similar to this supply.

GPN 6106A
6x6x18 (or so) inches iron chassis, zinc coat, rack rails on the sides
550VA traditional transformer
723 & 3055 (6 in total) traditional circuit
70's style printed circuit board
220v input
Double outputs, 13.Xv one for transmitter, another 14.Xv to charge a battery
Dangling short lead, 4 wires (IIRC).
Possibly from a pager transmitter site
Possibly part of "Motorola Mitrek Compa II station"

The supply still works ok, I'm happy with it, but I'd like to find a schematic or at least to find out how the battery is supposed to be connected. From the 5 or so trimpots, I've located the two voltage adjustments.

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Sounds interesting, I've no idea to be honest. A beast from your description, be cool to see some pictures of it.
Might throw up some more clues, and someone on here might have come across one in the past.
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It's just a gray box with lots of tiny ventilation holes, IEC* mains input and a 4-way terminal post. From the outside
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and inside
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Pardon the wallpaper and the radios :)

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* Correction: Input was a dangling lead, originally. I added the IEC jack myself some years ago.
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Definitely looks well made, check out those Diodes, I assume there Diodes. Not sure what the two tall grey components are to the right. Thought high power resistors at first, but they look like pcb mount socket of some sort. No idea..
The other potentiometers might be current limiting or fold back protection adjustment, only maybe. Do the radios work ? Are they VHF, look like commercial stuff. I'm not sure, hope someone can chime in with some knowledge of these radios, and the psu it uses.
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The upright components are 5 wattish resistors alright. The visible diodes are for some auxiliary voltage, the main rectifier is on the outboard heatsink. There are so many components, that I assume some kind of mains/battery changeover is builtin. There's a relay that clicks when mains is turned off.

I'm not keen to prod any more around the insides while it works, aged components might be brittle. As it has worked for 4 decades or so, so far, it probably outlives me. The 3055 have peculiar sockets, btw, they can be changed from the outside with only a screwdriver.

Juha

The 70cm, 2m, 4m radios shown (NMT, ex-PMR) are not associated with the supply. I know too much about the radios, actually.
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