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A glowing plate in a vacuum tube circuit indicates that the tube is drawing excessive current. This causes the anode ("plate") to overheat and radiate a visible red or orange glow. In consumer electronics, this is universally indicative that the tube is experiencing an overload condition, though the reasons for the overload may vary.
Later thermionic vacuum tubes, mostly miniature style, some with top cap connections for higher voltages. A vacuum tube, electron tube, [1] [2] [3] thermionic valve (British usage), or tube (North America) [4] is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
A vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) is a display device once commonly used on consumer electronics equipment such as video cassette recorders, car radios, and microwave ovens. A VFD operates on the principle of cathodoluminescence , roughly similar to a cathode-ray tube , but operating at much lower voltages.
Pages in category "Vacuum tubes" The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total. ... Edison and Swan Electric Light Company; EF50; EF86; EF95;
Wherever possible, the 12V equivalent of a 6V tube had the same letters, just 12 instead of 6. L as a first letter often indicates a lock-in (Loktal) tube. P as a second letter from the end indicates a CRT. S as a first letter indicates single-ended tubes, related to grid-cap tubes. S as a second letter indicates single-ended tubes.
It was not until the 1960s that needle meters were made inexpensively enough in Japan to displace indicator tubes. [2] Tuning indicator tubes were used in vacuum tube receivers from around 1936 to 1980, before vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors in radios. [3] An earlier tuning aid which the magic eye replaced was the "tuneon" neon lamp ...
Most post-war European thermionic valve (vacuum tube) manufacturers have used the Mullard–Philips tube designation naming scheme. Special quality variants may have the letter "S" appended, or the device description letters may be swapped with the numerals (e.g. an E82CC is a special quality version of an ECC82)
The tube checker is the second-simplest of all tube testers after filament continuity testing. Tubes are used as a low power rectifier, with all elements other than filament connections connected together as the anode, at a fraction of its normal emission. By mistake referred to sometimes as Emission Tester because they are a crude measure of ...