Raytheon type 3B24 half-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with top contact, ceramic insulator, T-shaped envelope. Stamped on base: "G6387". Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave vacuum rectifier made by Raytheon for the US government during World War II. For high voltage and low current applications, used principally to supply anode voltage to cathode ray tubes used in radar equipment. Filament center tapped for use on 2.5 or 5 volts at 6 or 3 amperes, respectively. Maximum plate peak voltage 20000, maximum current 30 milliamps.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_3b24.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.325208
label: catalog number
content: 325208
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 3.81 cm