Antique radios, Old Time Radios

6L6G

ID = 2982

Country:

Worldwide

Brand:	Common type Worldwide tube/semicond. Common type Worldwide tube/semicond. Philips Australia Belvu, Radio - voir aussi Claude, Fotos, Visseaux; Malakoff Cossor, A.C.; London Philco, Philadelphia Stg. Batt. Co.; USA
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:

UZ-6L6A ; 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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Information source

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

6L6G: schematic diagram Jacob Roschy More ...
6L6G: RTT Schwandt 14.Aufl. Günther Stabe † 19.8.20 More ...	Just Qvigstad	6L6G: RCA RECEIVING TUBE MANUAL Jg. 1950 Peter Steffen More ...

Usage in Models

19= 1936 ; 13= 1937?? ; 53= 1937 ; 3= 1938?? ; 10= 1938? ; 104= 1938 ; 6= 1939?? ; 10= 1939? ; 51= 1939 ; 15= 1940?? ; 12= 1940? ; 59= 1940 ; 2= 1941?? ; 6= 1941? ; 29= 1941 ; 3= 1942?? ; 6= 1942? ; 12= 1942 ; 2= 1943?? ; 1= 1943? ; 7= 1943 ; 6= 1944 ; 12= 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 ; 25= 1950?? ; 18= 1950? ; 11= 1950 ; 3= 1951?? ; 34= 1951? ; 8= 1951 ; 19= 1952? ; 5= 1952 ; 2= 1953?? ; 5= 1953? ; 8= 1953 ; 1= 1954?? ; 3= 1954? ; 14= 1954 ; 12= 1955?? ; 4= 1955? ; 2= 1955 ; 2= 1956?? ; 7= 1956? ; 1= 1956 ; 2= 1957?? ; 5= 1957? ; 2= 1957 ; 1= 1958?? ; 3= 1958? ; 1= 1958 ; 2= 1959? ; 1= 1959 ; 6= 1960?? ; 3= 1960 ; 1= 1962? ; 1= 1965?? ; 1= 1971 ; 1= 2000 ; 3= 9999

Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):784

Museum "Kapiti Coast Museum"

Museum "Museo della Radio e della Fotografia"

Collection of

Wolfgang Bauer (A)

Emilio Ciardiello (I)

Jozef Brughmans † (B)

Carlo La Perna (I)

Benedetto Pirani (I)

Hartmut Völler (D)

Christian Schaufelberger (CH)

Jean-Jacques Pontigny (F)

Collection of a member from FIN

Karlheinz Fischer (D)

Peter Steffen (CH)

Aldo Patriarca (CH)

Karl - Heinz Bossan (D)

Robert Gillespie (USA)

Bruce Morgenstern (CDN)

Hans-Werner Ellerbrock (D)

Jacky Parmentier (F)

Maximiliano Fernandez (RA)

Collection of a member from D

Siegfried Neumann (D)

Museum Roggenhofer (A)

Peter Pfeiffer (D)

Stefan Müller (D)

Paul Van de Weghe (B)

6L6G

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6L6G

Common type Worldwide tube/semicond.

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