However, regarding the hand generator, I doubt that a swift boat had one on board... My experience with telephone hand generators is that they will put out almost 100 volts AC at about 200 MA. That's enough to make your muscles painfully contract. That would be 20 watts, and you wouldn't be able to turn the crank fast enough under that load to actually get that much power (voltage times amperage).
I TOTALY AGREE!! WITH THAT TAKE
My answer to these stupid posts,..
what that idiot means is the Feild phone was a "Crank Phone" meaning you crank it to call the other end,.. meaning the phone itself causes an electrical charge.
Those phones never really made any electricity to speak of by the way.
DITTO!!!!
Have you ever been on a swift boat?
I have been on the majority of the swift boats that were in the Delta between 1968 and 1969. That being said which one of us do you think would have a better idea of what may have happened?
"Mr. Electrician"
The only reason I stated that I was an electrician was to provide you with some background on my qualification to reply to your post. Please except my apology if I came off as a know it all. That was not my intent.
Kerry did not say he connected a 12v battery and, as I posted earlier, this was a common tale on the swift boats. I have heard it many times.