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U18

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ID = 8261
       
Country:
Great Britain (UK)
Brand: MO Valve Co. Ltd.; GB
Tube type:  Full-Wave Vacuum Rectifier   Power-supply 
Identical to U18 = NU12 = 45IU
First Source (s)
Sep.1936 : Wireless World (The), London (WW, 79) p273
Successor Tubes U18/20  

Base Europe 4-Pin B4 (Eu A, E, 4A) 1914 (Codex=Eo)
Was used by Radio/TV-reception etc.
Filament Vf 4 Volts / If 3.75 Ampere / Direct
Description

Manufacturer's data (1938) states heater 3.75A.
Va <500 rms. Ia <250mA mean.
1958 GEC data states Heater current 2.8A approximately.
(Price 1.1EUR in 1938)

 
Information source The Saga of Marconi Osram Valve   p. 330
- - Manufacturers Literature   
Babani, International Radio Tube Encyclopaedia
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49

17_89.png U18: Telefunken Werkstattbuch
Wolfgang Bauer


Just Qvigstad
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U18: MARCONI RECEIVING VALVES, LONDON, 1938
Jose Casas-Avalos

Usage in Models 1= 1946? ; 1= 1946

Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):2

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U18
 

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