Sperry type SAC-19 experimental klystron amplifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1961
name: label: maker
content: Sperry Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin plastic base with center post on which is set a metal assembly with ventilated heat sink on top, two plates perpendicular to the tube with a cavity. Stamped on base: "{Sperry logo] / SAC-19 / Experimental Klystron / NC to be used for design / purposes without contacting / Sperry Gyroscope Company.", inked: "07.287.A". Donor’s card reads: “Experimental klystron amplifier made by Sperry Electronic Tube Division of Sperry-Rand Corporation, Gainesville, Florida. A two-cavity single stage amplifier klystron with wave guide input and output. Useful as a master oscillator, power amplifier, or synchronous mixer; used in beacons doppler radar, MTI radar and secondary frequency standards. For operation in C band, 5975 to 6375 megacycles. Heater 6.2 volts at 2 amperes. Beam voltage 500 at 95 milliamps. With a radio frequency input of .6 watt this tube will give at center frequency 3.5 watts radio frequency output.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Specifications: Description App; Du. Cy. 2 res / Frequency (kmc) 5.8 to 6.42 / Heater: 6.3V; 2A / Beam: 625V; .16A / Power Output: 6w
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reference: Electronic Industries, November 1961, 152; https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Tele-Tech/60s/Electronic-Industries-1961-11.pdf.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.325306
label: catalog number
content: 325306
label: accession number
content: 252994
label: maker number
content: 07287A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: klystron
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm