Antique radios, Old Time Radios

2A6

ID = 2650

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Brand:

Common type USA tube/semicond.

Common type USA tube/semicond. Canadian Marconi Co. Ltd. (CMC, Esterline), Marconi's Wireless; Montreal, QC Purotron, Raga AG; Zürich Visseaux / Télévisso; Lyon / Paris Fivre - tubes; Milano (MI) Arcturus Radio Tube Co.; Newark, NJ Coronado (tubes) - see also Gamble-Skogmo; Minneapolis, MN Raytheon Mfg. Co.; Cambridge, MA RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY) Sylvania (Hygrade, GTE, Nilco); Emporium (PA) Triad Television & Mfg. Co.; Pawtucket, RI Tung-Sol Electric Inc.; Newark (NJ)

Tube type:

Double Diode-Triode

Identical to

2A6 = UZ2A6 = A4006B = CV1769 = PH2A6 = NU-2A6

Similar Tubes

Normally replaceable-slightly different:

2A6S

Other class quality (otherwise equal):

101A_Boonton ; 1659 ; 535-A ; 535-B

Heater different:

Other base:

2A6_Coronet

Other base and other heater:

6B6G ; 6SQ7GT

First year

Apr.1933 70 Years of Radiotubes and V. >84 models started 1933, some with dated ads.

Successor Tubes

75 6Q7 6B6G

Base

6-Pin-Base U6A, old, USA (Codex=Ka) Top contact with a cap.

Filament

Vf 2.5 Volts / If 0.8 Ampere / Indirect / Specified voltage AC/DC

Description

Glass type used in ac-operated receivers chiefly as a combined detector, amplifier, and avc tube. Heater rating is 2.5 volts ac/dc, 0.8 amperes. Electrical characteristics are identical with type 6SQ7 except heater.

Tube prices

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Information source

Essential Characteristics, GE 1973
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49


2A6: Telefunken Werkstattbuch Wolfgang Bauer More ...	Just Qvigstad	2A6: Cunningham Radiotron Manual Peter Hoddow More ...

Usage in Models

1= 1932?? ; 9= 1933?? ; 23= 1933? ; 84= 1933 ; 26= 1934?? ; 22= 1934? ; 166= 1934 ; 19= 1935?? ; 18= 1935? ; 105= 1935 ; 4= 1936?? ; 14= 1936? ; 23= 1936 ; 3= 1937?? ; 3= 1937? ; 1= 1938?? ; 5= 1938 ; 1= 1939?? ; 2= 1939? ; 1= 1939 ; 1= 1945?? ; 1= 1950?? ; 2= 9999

Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):534

Museum "HMS COLLINGWOOD HERITAGE COLLECTION CHC"

Collection of

2A6

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