• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth

• Year
• 1933/1934

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 35025

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 17

• Valves / Tubes
• 58 58 58 or 2A7 58 55 57 57 58 or 57 56 56 56 2A5 2A5 2A5 2A5 5Z3 5Z3

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 180 or 465 kHz; 3 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 9 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Wave Bands given in the notes.

• Details
• Record-Changer, both sides!; Visual Tuning Indicator pre Eye

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 60 cycles, 115 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• 2 Loudspeakers

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 400B Chippendale Ch= W-836 or W-839, W-837, 16-E-2 - Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN

• Shape
• Console with any shape - in general

• Notes

• 400B Chippendale, two speed changer 16-E-2, remote Aladdin possible
  Cabinet: The Capehart model series 400 with Chippendale cabinet were made in five basic cabinet versions: The first models were called Chippendale 400 without suffix for 1931/32, followed by 400A (1932/33) and 400B (1933/34).
  Model Chippendale 405 followed as Chippendale 405C in 1934/35, 405D, 405E, 405F and 405G (1938/39).
  Then it changed style again and got model number Chippendale 410G, 410H, 410K and Chippendale 410M.After the war the models had the changer 41-E instead of 16-E: Chippendale 413N followed with a parallel Chippendale 414N, both for 1946-1948), followed by Chippendale 413P and 414P for 1948-50 as the last production.
  Style Chippendale was also used for Panamuse and others - and other companies used the style. See at the manufacturer Howard.

  Chassis = change by season: See Rider's volume 5-2 for the 8-tube tuner chassis W-836 for Capehart 400B, 402B and 404B with 58 RF, 58 osc, 2A7 mixer, 2 x 58 IF, 55 and 2 x 57 and tuning meter. But read this article about variants and different tuners for the "B". The all wave tuner chassis W-839 with 58, 2A7, 2 x 58, 56, 55, and 2 x 57 and tuning meter, also having 8 tubes, is found on Rider's 5-3. And see the 9-tube amplifier chassis W-837 - tubes 3 x 56, 4 x 2A5 and 2 x 5Z3 Rider's 5-4. Careful not to confuse it with Rider's page 1-1 to 1-4 for models 400, 401 and 402, one chassis with 13 tubes.

  See here the "Common information for the Capehart model pages for the 1930s and 1940s". We show also a model page for the 400 series, either to collect photos of unknown detail and/or to show the different cabinets in comparison.

• Price in first year of sale
• 995.00 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 4 = ca. 1934 and before

• Mentioned in
• The Incomparable Capehart

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 5 = ca. 1934 and before (5-2, 5-3 and 5-4 but also 4-3 for 400B and 4-2 for tuner 400B)

• Other Models

• Here you find 262 models, 153 with images and 119 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth