Raytheon type 45Z3 half-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Stamped on envelope: "45Z3" and "Raytheon". Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave vacuum rectifier made by Raytheon Corporation. Used in the power supply of small portable AC/DC battery-operated radio receiver where small size and low heat dissipation are important. Heater type: 45 volts at .075 ampere. Plate output maximum 15 volts DC at 65 milliamps.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_45z3.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.325282
label: catalog number
content: 325282
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm