RCA type 800 power triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with two top contacts, domed envelope. Stamped on base: RCA logo. Donor’s card reads: “Power triode made by the Radio Corporation of America in the 1920s. Used in the Class C output stage of the early AM base station of the West Chester police. Thoriated tungsten filament, 7.5 volts at 3.1 amps, 1000 volts at 80 milliamps on the plate, negative control grid bias 400 volts, output 50 watts.”
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.324637
label: catalog number
content: 324637
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 2 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 6.985 cm