RCA type 6-BC-8 medium-Mu twin triode
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 9-pin glass base with T-shaped envelope top tipped. Stamped: “6BC8”. Donor’s card reads: “Medium-Mu twin triode made by the Radio Corporation of America. Used in direct coupled cathode drive radio frequency amplifier circuits of VHF television receivers. In such tuner circuits one triode is used as the direct coupled grounded cathode driver for the other unit. Also used in push-pull cathode drive radio frequency amplifiers. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .4 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6bc8.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.325236
label: catalog number
content: 325236
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: 2 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 1.905 cm