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E960

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ID = 17725
       
Country:
Great Britain (UK)
Brand: GEC, General Electric Co Ltd., GENALEX; London
Tube type:  Transmitting Triode, air cooled 
Identical to E960 = VT58
Predecessor Tubes ACT10  
Successor Tubes E960T  

Was used by Radar
Filament Vf 12.6 Volts / If 58 Ampere / Direct
Description

GEC developmental code for the VHF power triode approved as VT58. Pure tungsten filament.

External copper anode triode, metal-glass style, designed to replace the silica envelope type NT57. Derived from the ACT10 television transmitting tube, it was first used in the experimental 200MHz CHL transmitters, in 1938. From early 1940 it replaced silica valves, NT57 and its improved variants NT57D and NT57T, in MB2, in GL1 and in GL2.

 
Information source Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49   
-- Original prospect or advert   Callick, Metres to Microwaves

 

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