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6L6G

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ID = 2982
       
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Developer: RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY) 
Tube type:  Beam Power Tube 
Identical to 6L6G = VT-115A = CV1947
Similar Tubes
Other shape (e.g. bulb type):
  3108_OSW ; 6L6 ; 6L6GA ; 6L6GT ; 6L6GTY ; 6L6T ; 6L6_DDR ; 6П3С ; OSW3108
Normally replaceable-slightly different:
  VT198_GPO
Other class quality (otherwise equal):
  6L6GX
Heater and shape different:
  11L6
Different connections:
  6AL6 ; 6AL6G
Other base:
  RK49 ; T21_USA
Other base and data slightly different:
  6П7С ; 807
Other base and other heater:
  AC/Q
Multiple differences or of other kind:
  6BG6G
First year 08.Jun.1936 Electron Tube Registration List and start of dated models
Successor Tubes 6L6GB   6L6GC  

Base Octal (Int.Octal, IO) K8A, USA 1935 (Codex=Udb)
Filament Vf 6.3 Volts / If 0.9 Ampere / Indirect / Specified voltage AC/DC
Description

Beam-power-tetrode, launched spring 1936 by RCA. Predecessors: none / Successors: none, still in production. By demand of more output power new output tubes appeared in 1936 with plate dissipation increased from 9 to 18 watts. In Europe it were the pentodes AL5 (4Vf) and EL5 (6.3Vf), in the USA it was the worlds first and most famous beam-power-tetrode, the 6L6. First it appeared as metal tube, then in several glass versions, e.g. as 6L6GC with 35 watts dissipation.

 
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Tube prices 5 Tube prices (visible for members only)
Information source Essential Characteristics, GE 1973   
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49   

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6L6G: schematic diagram
Jacob Roschy
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oc33_g_32.gif 6L6G: RTT Schwandt 14.Aufl.
Günther Stabe † 19.8.20

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Just Qvigstad
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6L6G: RCA RECEIVING TUBE MANUAL Jg. 1950
Peter Steffen

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Usage in Models 19= 1936 ; 13= 1937?? ; 53= 1937 ; 3= 1938?? ; 10= 1938? ; 104= 1938 ; 6= 1939?? ; 10= 1939? ; 50= 1939 ; 14= 1940?? ; 12= 1940? ; 59= 1940 ; 2= 1941?? ; 5= 1941? ; 29= 1941 ; 3= 1942?? ; 6= 1942? ; 12= 1942 ; 2= 1943?? ; 1= 1943? ; 7= 1943 ; 6= 1944 ; 10= 1945?? ; 1= 1945? ; 3= 1945 ; 5= 1946?? ; 5= 1946? ; 20= 1946 ; 2= 1947?? ; 9= 1947? ; 4= 1947 ; 12= 1948?? ; 21= 1948? ; 14= 1948 ; 7= 1949?? ; 11= 1949? ; 12= 1949 ; 24= 1950?? ; 19= 1950? ; 11= 1950 ; 3= 1951?? ; 25= 1951? ; 7= 1951 ; 12= 1952? ; 7= 1952 ; 2= 1953?? ; 4= 1953? ; 8= 1953 ; 3= 1954? ; 14= 1954 ; 12= 1955?? ; 4= 1955? ; 2= 1955 ; 2= 1956?? ; 8= 1956? ; 1= 1956 ; 2= 1957?? ; 5= 1957? ; 2= 1957 ; 3= 1958? ; 1= 1958 ; 2= 1959? ; 1= 1959 ; 6= 1960?? ; 3= 1960 ; 1= 1962? ; 1= 1965?? ; 1= 1971 ; 1= 2000 ; 2= 9999

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6L6G
 

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