Whats your favorite tube type?
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fritsp2007



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

New addition the RV12
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wo, I have a big one ,too.

fritsp2007 wrote:
The biggest I have is a GMI-90 and the smallest one is a Nuvistor 930 RCA
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The full name is RV12P2000, a universal pentode developed during WW2.
It was still in production until 1948 in Germany. In the former GDR this type was used and produced until the 60's!

Nice find!

Bernhard
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fritsp2007 wrote:
The biggest I have is a GMI-90 and the smallest one is a Nuvistor 930 RCA

gekaufman wrote:
GMI-90 http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/sheets/018/g/GMI90.pdf

Nuvistor 930 http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/sheets/049/9/930.pdf

- Gary

Vlasta wrote:
fritsp2007 wrote:
The biggest I have is a GMI-90 and the smallest one is a Nuvistor 930 RCA
give some idea of size?


There never was a nuvistor model "930", and the datasheet you linked to is that of a IR photodetector. Based on the picture I'd say that your nuvistor is in fact a RCA 7586 (it's stamped on top, as in most nuvistors) which is a triode. I have a few of them, along with other types of nuvistors.
http://www.r-type.org/pdfs/7586.pdf
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the adequate information.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another beautiful tube
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The bottom tube might be spark gap/surge arrestor Confused
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The past month working on a Nixie clock, and it works and now a nice box to put it in.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

New addition a Philips EL6435 Tube amp.
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My favorite tube type which I am actively using and building new instruments with, is the photomultiplier. They are still being made new because despite advances in semiconductors there still isn't anything that can really replace them. Not even the SiPM (silicon photomultipliers) can do everything a real vacuum PMT can.

I build scintillation detectors with them for detection of gamma radiation.

My second favorite tube type is the thyratron. Want a few thousand amps at a few kV switched in a few nanoseconds? Try to do that with silly-con and watch it lose its magic smoke. Smile
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