RCA type 6H6 twin diode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin plastic base with center post, metal T-shaped envelope. Stamped on envelope: "6H6". Donor’s card reads: “Twin diode made by the Radio Corporation of America. Used as detectors, low voltage rectifiers and AVC tubes in radio receivers. Electrically interchangeable with the 6-F-6-GT tube [catalog number 325151]. Heater type, 6.3 volts at .3 ampere. Except for a common heater, the two diodes are independent of each other.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6h6.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.324561
label: catalog number
content: 324561
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: diode
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 3.175 cm