Whats your favorite tube type?
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and they usually output a ton of UV light too lol

Less cool looking but more practical is the ignitrons

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Betatron РБК6-6Э RBK6-6E (X-ray camera betatron). The maximum achievable energy in the betatron: ≤ 6 MeV.

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's my little home-designed and built nixie clock throning on my desk Smile
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gekaufman wrote:
Mercury vapor rectifiers are cool looking, but a pain to use. They need to be pre-heated or they flash over (sometimes dramatically). If they are moved around they need to be pre-conditioned by heating the filament without B+ for an extended period of time. They also give off tons of RF hash.

I know, I built a 211 single ended triode amp with 866jr rectifiers a few years back.


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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey I have one of these on my desk too!
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2015 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rjluna2 wrote:
I thought you meant one of these... giant ones. By the way, the picture you posted here are ignitrons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignitron


It isn't a Ignitron, it's a three phase mercury arc rectifier. This kind of tube was the first industrially available and successful high-current "solid state" rectifier. Here in Europe it was a fundamental keystone in development of DC-powered railroad traction. The picture shows a relatively small rectifier: the large ones were constructed in full metal (capable of handling DC currents of **many** thousands Amperes). A piece of industrial history.
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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check this!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY6V2syGnZA

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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a nice Nixie tube
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PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2015 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Push Pull Audio with a pair of RCA829b VHF Tetrodes
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PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2015 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many many years ago I built a wood PC with integrated an audio tube amplifer for the speakers
many dust on it now!!
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PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2015 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My favourite tube type is the one I am smoking right now Smile
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2015 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The biggest I have is a GMI-90 and the smallest one is a Nuvistor 930 RCA
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2015 9:46 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
give some idea of size?
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2015 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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fritsp2007 wrote:
The biggest I have is a GMI-90 and the smallest one is a Nuvistor 930 RCA
give some idea of size?
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PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2015 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A nice photo multiplier EMI 9638B
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