Central Electronics type HV-18 triode
name: label: maker
content: Central Electronics Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A metal 4-pin base with ceramic insulators, top contact, side contact, T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Central Electronics Company for use primarily as a Class C radio frequency amplifier. Considered an approximate replacement for the type 810 but less efficient than that triode. For Class C radio frequency amplifier use: 2000 volts at 160 milliamperes on the plate, 350 volts negative control grid bias, for an output of 250 watts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_hv18.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.324523
label: catalog number
content: 324523
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: 9 1/2 in x 4 in x 3 in; 24.13 cm x 10.16 cm x 7.62 cm