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50B5

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ID = 3120
       
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Brand:
Developer: RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY) 
Tube type:  Beam Power Tube   Power/Output 
Identical to 50B5 = A4388
Similar Tubes
Normally replaceable-slightly different:
  50F2
Different connections:
  50C5
First Source (s)
25.Oct.1945 : Electron Tube Registration List
Predecessor Tubes 50L6G  
Base Miniatur-7-Pin-Base B7G, USA 1940 (Codex=Zib)
Was used by Radio/TV-reception etc.
Filament Vf 50 Volts / If 0.15 Ampere / Indirect / Specified current AC/DC ~ = (Series working)
Description

Typical operation: 110 V plate and screen grid, 49 mA plate current, -7.5 V G1. 1.9 W across 2500 ohms.

Max peak heater to cathode insulation +/- 90 V in the early release. Insulation uprated to 200 V starting from May 1957.

* RMA/JEDEC register record available by courtesy of TCA* - Full record is downloadable here.

 
Tube prices 5 Tube prices (visible for members only)
Information source Essential Characteristics, GE 1973   
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49   
- - Manufacturers Literature
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50B5: Courtesy Bureau Belper (De Muiderkring, Bussum), Scan Frank Philipse
Karel De Reus †
50b5_so.png 50B5: ARRL Handbook 1972
Anonymous 10 Collector
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Just Qvigstad 		50b5_techdat01.png
50B5: Sylvania Technical Manual
Peter Hoddow
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Usage in Models 1= 1940?? ; 6= 1946?? ; 27= 1946? ; 65= 1946 ; 2= 1947?? ; 20= 1947? ; 111= 1947 ; 9= 1948?? ; 49= 1948? ; 131= 1948 ; 15= 1949?? ; 30= 1949? ; 37= 1949 ; 71= 1950?? ; 30= 1950? ; 40= 1950 ; 29= 1951?? ; 29= 1951? ; 24= 1951 ; 17= 1952?? ; 22= 1952? ; 18= 1952 ; 12= 1953?? ; 15= 1953? ; 23= 1953 ; 5= 1954?? ; 12= 1954? ; 22= 1954 ; 19= 1955?? ; 11= 1955? ; 33= 1955 ; 5= 1956?? ; 2= 1956? ; 22= 1956 ; 6= 1957?? ; 1= 1957? ; 14= 1957 ; 9= 1958?? ; 1= 1958? ; 6= 1958 ; 5= 1959?? ; 8= 1959? ; 11= 1959 ; 19= 1960?? ; 2= 1960? ; 1= 1960 ; 1= 1961?? ; 1= 1961? ; 3= 1961 ; 2= 1962?? ; 1= 1962 ; 2= 1963? ; 2= 1963 ; 3= 1964?? ; 3= 1964 ; 3= 1965?? ; 3= 1965? ; 1= 1968?? ; 1= 1970?? ; 4= 9999
Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):1077

Collection of

Hannu Alho (FIN)
Hermann Fleischanderl (A)
Museum Roggenhofer (A)
Georges Werts (B)
Franco Antolini (I)
Danko Tkalec (HR)
Marcello Astolfi (I)
Bruce Morgenstern (CDN)
Peter Pfeiffer (D)
Ralph Oppelt † 3.4.24 (D)
Mario Coelho (P)
Ulrich Fieseler (D)
Giorgio Busletta (I)
George Papaiz (CDN)
Robert Gillespie (USA)
Alberto Ammendola (I)
Tomasz Szczesniak (PL)
Patrice Follet (F)
Christian Schaufelberger (CH)
Massimo Pedrina (I)
Robert Meszaros (H)
Patrice Zeissloff (F)
David Erali (USA)
Aldo Patriarca (CH)
Documents about this component
  RMA registration record covering the RCA tube types 6AT6, 6AU6, 6BA6, 6BE6, 12AT6, 12BA6, 12BE6, 35W4 and 50B5 2327 KB
 
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50B5
 
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