RCA type 6-W-4-GT “Radiotron” half-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 5-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Stamped on base: “Radiotron / Electron / Tube / [RCA logo]”, on envelope: “6W4/GT”. Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave vacuum rectifier made by the Radio Corporation of America. Glass octal type used as a damper diode in the magnetic deflection circuits of television receivers and as a rectifier in conventional power supply applications. Heater type: 6.3 volts at 1.3 amperes. Average load capacity on the plate: 350 volts at 125 milliamperes.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6w4gt.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.324760
label: catalog number
content: 324760
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: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm