Raytheon type 6-AU-8 medium-Mu triode-sharp cutoff pentode
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 9-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Donor’s card reads: “Medium-Mu triode-sharp cutoff pentode made by Raytheon Mfg. Co. Used in a wide variety of applications in television receivers employing series-connected heater strings. The pentode side is used as a video amplifier, an intermediate frequency amplifier, or as AGC amplifier. The triode side is used in sync-amplifier, sync-separator, sync-clipper and phase inverter circuits. Center tapped heater for either 6.3 or 12.6 volt operation.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6au8.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.324837
label: catalog number
content: 324837
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 1.905 cm