General Electric type 6-AS-7-GA twin triode
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Twin triode made by the General Electric Company. Glass octal type designed for use as a power amplifier. The low Mu and high plate current rating of the tube adapt it particularly well to booster operation in the scanning circuit of television receivers. It may be used as a regulator tube in DC power supplies. Cold cathode: heater: 6.3 volts at 2.5 amperes. In DC service this tube can be used with 300 volts on the plate at 125 milliamps. Plate dissipation 13 watts, amplification factor 2.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6as7ga.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325034
label: catalog number
content: 325034
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 3.81 cm