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Started by ralph day, November 08, 2019, 08:20:57 AM

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ralph day

Ok, is this for real?  In an inverter?  Am I showing my ignorance?  And what is it?


boB


Ross may pipe up and say where he got a pic of that but it is some kind of transmitting tube.
Air cooled I think ?

The big round top (upside down) is the plate for pretty sure and the bottom (right side up) ring might be a connection ?

If  this is a directly heated cathode triode tube then the 3 wires sticking out the bottom would be heater-cathode, heater-cathode and grid.

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RossW

Quote from: boB on November 08, 2019, 01:22:55 PM

Ross may pipe up and say where he got a pic of that but it is some kind of transmitting tube.
Air cooled I think ?

Indeed it is from a (now old) commercial AM transmitter. This valve produced a couple of kilowatts of carrier, and another hefty valve amplified the modulation which was then superimposed via modulation transformer.

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The big round top (upside down) is the plate for pretty sure and the bottom (right side up) ring might be a connection ?

If  this is a directly heated cathode triode tube then the 3 wires sticking out the bottom would be heater-cathode, heater-cathode and grid.



There is an interesting section on the valve and its manufacture here https://frank.pocnet.net/other/AWV_Radiotronics/Radiotronics_1958/1958_03_AWV_Radiotronics_23_03.pdf

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