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Re: Dead 833s? (was:RE: new single 833A VTTC)



Original poster: Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 12/24/03 12:58:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
Original poster: "C. Kollett" <ckollett-at-falconaerosystems-dot-com>

Look up the specs on an 833. Isnt it a mercury vapor recifier.

  Nope. It is a "thoriated-tungsten-filament type power triode". Of the 
800-series, only the 816, the 866A, and the 872A were mercury-vapor 
rectifiers. Source RCA Tech Manual TT-5.

Matt D.