Sylvania type 6Y6GA beam power tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 7-pin base with T-shaped envelope, getter stain. Base stamped: “Sylvania / Made in U.S.A.” Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube, glass octal type, made by the Sylvania Corporation. Used as an output amplifier in radio receivers. Also used in radio frequency operated high voltage power supplies in television transmitting equipment. Heater: 6.3 volts at 1.25 amperes. Typical Class A operation: 200 volts on the plate, 135 volts on the screen, 14 volt negative control grid bias, for an output of 6 watts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6y6ga.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.324656
label: catalog number
content: 324656
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 3.81 cm