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6B8

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ID = 2102
       
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Developer: Ken-Rad, The Kentucky Radio Corporation; Owensboro, KY 
Tube type:  Double Diode-Pentode   RF/IF-Stage   Controlling (mu) 
Identical to 6B8 = 6Б8 = VT-93 = CV1894
Similar Tubes
Other shape (e.g. bulb type):
  6B8EG ; 6B8G ; 6B8GT
Normally replaceable-slightly different:
  US-6B8
Heater different:
  12C8
Different connections:
  6B7M
Other base:
  6B7
First year 15.Jun.1936 Electron Tube Registration List
Predecessor Tubes 6B7   2B7  
Successor Tubes 6H8MG   7E7   12C8Y   6SF7  
Base Octal (Int.Octal, IO) K8A, USA 1935 (Codex=Ui) Top contact with a cap.
Was used by Radio/TV-reception etc.
Filament Vf 6.3 Volts / If 0.3 Ampere / Indirect / Specified voltage AND current AC/DC
Tube prices 4 Tube prices (visible for members only)
Information source Essential Characteristics, GE 1973   
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49   
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6B8: Courtesy Bureau Belper (De Muiderkring, Bussum), Scan Frank Philipse
Anonymous 10 Collector
392.png 6B8: Telefunken Werkstattbuch
Wolfgang Bauer
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6B8: Original data sheet
Otto Galli
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Usage in Models 3= 1936? ; 1= 1936 ; 4= 1937?? ; 1= 1937? ; 34= 1937 ; 2= 1938?? ; 2= 1938? ; 56= 1938 ; 3= 1939?? ; 3= 1939? ; 45= 1939 ; 4= 1940?? ; 4= 1940? ; 46= 1940 ; 2= 1941?? ; 4= 1941? ; 8= 1941 ; 1= 1942?? ; 4= 1942? ; 2= 1942 ; 1= 1944?? ; 1= 1944 ; 1= 1945?? ; 2= 1945? ; 7= 1945 ; 2= 1946?? ; 3= 1946? ; 12= 1946 ; 3= 1947?? ; 2= 1947? ; 2= 1947 ; 4= 1948?? ; 2= 1948? ; 13= 1948 ; 2= 1949? ; 2= 1949 ; 3= 1950?? ; 4= 1950? ; 6= 1950 ; 1= 1953? ; 1= 1954 ; 1= 1958
Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):304

Collection of

Aldo Patriarca (CH)
Saeed Delavari (IR)
Martin Bösch (CH)
Tomasz Szczesniak (PL)
Georges Werts (B)
Karlheinz Fischer (D)
Michael Gnaedig-Fischer (MEX)
Collection of a member from FIN
Jean-Jacques Pontigny (F)
Collection of a member from D
Bruce Morgenstern (CDN)
Valery Gromov (RUS)
Peter Pfeiffer (D)
Jacob Roschy (D)
Danko Tkalec (HR)
David Erali (USA)
George Papaiz (CDN)
 
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6B8
 
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