Raytheon type 2-B-3 diode
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 6-pin plastic base with center post, top contact, T-shaped envelope. Base stamped: “Raytheon “. Donor’s card reads: “Diode made by the Raytheon Mfg. Co. Glass octal type used in television receivers as the high voltage rectifier to supply anode voltage to the cathode ray tube. Filament: 1.75 volts at .25 ampere. Voltage drop at 7 milliamps is 100 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_2b3.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.325133
label: catalog number
content: 325133
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 3.175 cm