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ID = 2654
       
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Brand:
Developer: Westinghouse El. & Mfg. Co. - see also Canadian W. 
Tube type:  Screen-grid Tetrode   RF/IF-Stage 
Identical to 224 = Y-224 = RENS324 = NY224 = FY224 = SY224 = A224 = PAC224 = D224 = EY-224 = ER224 = T-224 = GSY224 = T-24 = A.C.224 = Y224AC = PM224 = AC224 = 324 = 24 = 24A = UY224
Similar Tubes
Normally replaceable-slightly different:
  224S ; 22AC ; ASX2240 ; RY224 ; SY224A
First year Apr.1929 Saga of the Vacuum Tube, Tyne page 321 and 322
Predecessor Tubes UY227  
Base UY-Base, 5 Pins (USA, April 1927) Top contact with a cap.
Was used by Radio/TV-reception etc.
Filament Vf 2.5 Volts / If 1.75 Ampere / Indirect / Specified voltage AC/DC
Description

According to Tyne, page 321, this first AC screen-grid tetrode, the UY224, later called 224 or 24' in the US was introduced in April 1929. It derived from the first US indirect heated triode UY227 from 1927 with the same heater-cathode combination. The oxide-coated filament operates at 2.5 volts AC or DC, taking 1.7 amperes. With 180 volts on the anode (-1.5 inner control grid, 75 volts on screen grid) is resulting 4 milliamperes, the amplification factor is a bout 420, the anode impedance 400 000 ohms and the mutual conductance 1050 micromhos. Direct capacitance between anode and control grid is less than 0.01 picofarad which made Neutrodynes obsolete beginning in 1929.

 
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Dimensions (WHD)
incl. pins / tip		 x 123 x 45 mm / x 4.84 x 1.77 inch
Weight 48 g / 1.69 oz
Information source Rider's Perpetual, Volume 2 = 1932 and before   Sparks-Withington, p.2-60
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49   
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224: Allied Radio Corp.
Günter Kudicke
448_8.png 224: Telefunken Werkstattbuch
Wolfgang Bauer

Just Qvigstad
Usage in Models 1= 1928? ; 2= 1929?? ; 49= 1929? ; 141= 1929 ; 17= 1930?? ; 25= 1930? ; 160= 1930 ; 17= 1931?? ; 31= 1931? ; 104= 1931 ; 5= 1932?? ; 12= 1932? ; 111= 1932 ; 5= 1933?? ; 8= 1933? ; 4= 1933 ; 6= 1934?? ; 5= 1934? ; 3= 1935?? ; 1= 1936?? ; 1= 1937? ; 1= 1939? ; 2= 9999
Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):711
Literature "Electronics" Vol. 2 No. 2 | 1931-02

Collection of

George Papaiz (CDN)
Geri Meier (CH)
Peter Steffen (CH)
Alessandro De Poi (I)
Danko Tkalec (HR)
Cristian Wolkenstein (RA)
Karlheinz Fischer (D)
 
224_4.jpg

224
 
Forum contributions about this tube
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UY224 odd structure
Joe Sousa
13.Jun.10 		  1
UY224 odd structure 

Fellow radiophiles,

I came across this strange looking UY224 screen grid AC heated tube in the back of an Atwater Kent 82

Can anyone explain the structure?

Regards,

-Joe

      

 

 
Emilio Ciardiello
14.Jun.10 		  2
Maybe 24A 

Dear Joe,

In addition to the standard 24 tetrode, Sibley lists the 24A version, designed for low secondary emission from plate. Maybe that the tube in the pictures above is the 24A. The odd shape can then be explained as a design choice to minimize the effects of the secondary emission. The draft below shows a cylindrical structure A and a square structure B, that approaches the one in your pictures. K are the cathodes and P are the plates. In the boxed structure B electrons extracted from the plate are preferably directed to other segments of the plate itself, so minimizing their action in the grid space.

        

It is only a guess, I know. But it could explain both the boxed plate and the asymmetry of the cathode displacement.
 

Regards, Emilio
Joe Sousa
23.Jun.10 		  3
Stokes on the 224 

Dear Emilio,

Thanks for the explanation. John Stokes shows a picture of this UY224 as an early version on page 66 of his "70 years of Radio Valves and tubes" book from 1982.

Regards,

-Joe
 
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