Raytheon type 3-AL-5 twin diode
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "3AL5”. Donor’s card reads: “Twin diode made by Raytheon Mfg. Co. A high perveance type used as a detector in television receivers employing series connected heater strings. Each diode can be used independent of the other or the two sections can be paralleled, or in full wave arrangement. Heater type: 3.15 volts at .06 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_3al5.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.324943
label: catalog number
content: 324943
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 4.445 cm x 1.5875 cm