Tesla B 115

Data[edit]

General

  • Manufacturer:
  • Model:B115
  • Year of manufacture:1981-1985
  • Made in: Czechoslovakia
  • Color: Black
  • Remote control:Yes-cable remote control (but only the pause function)
  • Power consumption:110 watts
  • Dimensions:404 x 187 x 428 mm
  • Weight:13Kg
  • New price approx.: 2700 DDR Marks


Connections

  • Number of outputs:
    • Monitor

headphones

  • Number of inputs:
    • Microphone
    • Phono
    • radio

Technical data

  • max. coil diameter: 18
  • drive:1 motor
  • heads: 3
  • tracks: quarter track
  • tape speeds: 9 & 19
  • Slip: too big to measure (very bad (soft) mechanics)
  • Variation in synchronization:measured min 0,3%
  • Pitch fluctuations:
  • Overall frequency response:50-15000Hz with special bands up to 20000Hz.
  • Signal to noise ratio:
  • Impurity voltage spacing:>48dB
  • Distortion factor: k30dB<1%
  • Entzerrung:
  • Übersprechdämpfung:>
  • Cancellation Attenuation:
  • Premagnetization and extinction frequency:


Special Features

  • Separate sound heads for recording and playback
  • Longlife recording head ANH 200
  • Longlife sound head playback ANH 210
  • Monitoring (pre- and post-tape control)
  • Tape end cut-off and automatic tape break (mechanical and electrical)
  • Built-in amplifier
  • with 2x10Watt at 4Ohm

Remark

  • Almost identical to the Tesla B 116 (without amplifier)

Remarks[edit]

Other models of the same series:Tesla wanted - but could not!!HW


Successors were : for the B115 the CM 130 (with amplifier) and for the B116 the CM 160 (without amplifier)

Units were improved and equipped with LED's instead of VU's.

Pictures[edit]

Reports[edit]

Links[edit]

[Tesla B 115 at the Wolfen Museum of Industry and Film]</1%>