Raytheon type 5-U-4-GB rectifier tube
date: label: date made
content: 1957
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic base with 5 pins and center post, T-shaped envelope, getter stain at top. Donor’s card reads: “Full wave vacuum rectifier made by the Raytheon Mfg. Co., in 1957 as an improved design over the 5-U-4-GA model [catalog number 324652]. Glass octal type used in the power supplies of radio and television equipment having high DC power requirements. Filament: 5 volts at 3 amperes. Capable of handling a plate load of 300 milliamperes at 290 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5u4gb.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.324445
label: catalog number
content: 324445
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: 4 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 3.81 cm