Bendix type 5947 / TT-2 temperatude limited diode
name: label: maker
content: Bendix
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: “5947 / TT-2 / Made in U.S.A. / Bendix”. Donor’s card reads: “Temperature limited diode made by the Red Bank Division of the Bendix Corporation, Eatontown, NJ. For use as a stable reference source for voltage regulator applications or for use in circuits requiring a tube with temperature limited emission characteristics. Temperature limited operation of the tube caused anode current to become a direct function of filament voltage. Thus small changes in filament voltage will produce large changes in anode current. The use of a pure tungsten filament permits continuous use of this tube in the temperature limited region without change or damage to the filament during the life of the tube. Designed operating characteristics: anode voltage 90 at 1.5 milliamps. Filament 4.48 volts at 175 amperes, AC or DC.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5947.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.325299
label: catalog number
content: 325299
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 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.9375 cm x 3.175 cm