Westinghouse type WL-803 power pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 5-pin plastic base with top contact, T-shaped envelope. Stamped on base: “Jan / CWL 803”. Donor’s card reads: “Power pentode made by the Westinghouse Corporation for the US government during World War II. May be used as a radio frequency amplifier or oscillator at full power up to 20 megacycles, and with reduced power up to 60 megacycles. Thoriated tungsten filament: 10 volts at 5 amperes. For Class C operation in frequency modulated telephony; plate 2000 volts at 175 milliamperes, screen 600 volts, suppressor grid 500 volts, 500 volt negative control grid bias, output 175 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.324501
label: catalog number
content: 324501
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: 9 in x 2 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 6.35 cm