General Electric type 6V6 beam power tube
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 7-pin base with center post, T-shaped metal envelope. Stamped: “734 / 188-5 / [GE logo]”. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by the General Electric Company. Used as audio output tube in automobile, battery operated, and other receivers in which reduced current drain is desired. Heater: 6.3 volts at .45 ampere. For Class A operation: 315 volts on the plate, 225 volts on the screen, 13 volts negative control grid bias for an output of 5.5 watts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6v6.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.324661
label: catalog number
content: 324661
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm