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6F5

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ID = 597
       
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Tube type:  Triode, vacuum   Audio Frequency 
Identical to 6F5 = 6Ф5 = CV1909
Similar Tubes
Other shape (e.g. bulb type):
  6F5G ; 6F5GT ; 6F5MG
Normally replaceable-slightly different:
  VT73
Heater different:
  12F5
Different connections:
  6SF5
First year 27.May.1935 Electron Tube Registration List
Successor Tubes 6SF5  

Base Octal (Int.Octal, IO) K8A, USA 1935 (Codex=Uh) 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
Description

First registered in May 1935 with control grid out from the octal base, almost a forerunner of 6SF5. On June 18, 1935 the grid connection was moved to an added top cap and the base diagram was changed accordingly.

 
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Information source Essential Characteristics, GE 1973   
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49   
- - Manufacturers Literature

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6F5: Courtesy Bureau Belper (De Muiderkring, Bussum), Scan Frank Philipse
Anonymous 10 Collector

6f5_so.png 6F5: RCA Reference Book 1968
Anonymous 10 Collector

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Just Qvigstad
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6F5: Original data sheet
Michael Poll

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Usage in Models 6= 1935?? ; 21= 1935? ; 143= 1935 ; 20= 1936?? ; 48= 1936? ; 288= 1936 ; 33= 1937?? ; 38= 1937? ; 186= 1937 ; 39= 1938?? ; 54= 1938? ; 160= 1938 ; 11= 1939?? ; 18= 1939? ; 64= 1939 ; 10= 1940?? ; 6= 1940? ; 41= 1940 ; 3= 1941?? ; 3= 1941? ; 3= 1941 ; 2= 1942?? ; 5= 1942? ; 1= 1943 ; 2= 1944? ; 2= 1944 ; 1= 1945?? ; 3= 1945? ; 1= 1947?? ; 2= 1947 ; 4= 1948?? ; 3= 1948? ; 2= 1948 ; 1= 1949?? ; 3= 1949? ; 2= 1949 ; 3= 1950?? ; 2= 1950 ; 4= 1951?? ; 1= 1951 ; 15= 1953 ; 1= 1954 ; 1= 1955?? ; 1= 1956

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Collection of

 
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6F5
 

Variants

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