General Electric type 5AW4 full-wave vacuum rectifier
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 5-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Base stamped: “:: [GE logo] Electronic / Tube / Made in U.S.A.” Donor’s card reads: “Full-wave vacuum rectifier made by the General Electric Company. Glass octal type designed for use in power supplies having high current requirement. Used where the type 5-U-4-G is inadequate. Filament: 5 volts at 3.7 amperes. Plate maximum 500 volts at 250 milliamps.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5aw4.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.325132
label: catalog number
content: 325132
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: 5 in x 1 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 3.81 cm