Westinghouse type 3-CF-6 sharp cutoff pentode
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass based miniature tube with tip on top. Stamped: “5879”. Donor’s card reads: “Sharp cutoff pentode made by the Westinghouse Company. Used as radio frequency or intermediate frequency amplifiers in television receivers employing series connected heater strings. Because of its plate current cutoff characteristics, this type is used in gain controlled stages of video amplifiers. Heater type: 3.15 volts at .6 ampere. See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_3cf6.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.324993
label: catalog number
content: 324993
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm