Antique radios, Old Time Radios

UV217

ID = 28848

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Brand:	General Electric for Brand RCA-Radiotron; Bridgeport CT, Syracuse NY
Developer:	General Electric Co. (GE); Bridgeport CT, Syracuse NY
Tube type:	Half-Wave Vacuum Rectifier Power-supply

Identical to

UV217 = 217_RCA

Similar Tubes

Other characteristic (electr. data):

UV217A ; UV217B ; UV217C

First year

Mar.1927 Saga of the Vacuum Tube, Tyne page 323

First Source (s)

1924 : Saga of the Vacuum Tube, Tyne p.323

01.Jun.1922 : RCA Catalog June 1, 1922

Successor Tubes

1921 UV217B UV217C UV217A

Base

Jumbo 4-pin bayonet (1918)

Was used by

Transmittertube (Radio)

Filament

Vf 10 Volts / If 6.5 Ampere / Direct / Specified voltage AC/DC

Description

Work started on development of this tube at the GE laboratories in the Spring of 1920 and the type number was assigned to it in June 1921.It was released to the public on October 1921. The base insulation on early tubes was a mica disc 50-Watt size tube, called Kenotron Rectifier.
DC output 150 W at 1000 V DC.

Text in other languages (may differ)

Dimensions (WHD)
incl. pins / tip

51 x 191 x 51 mm / 2.01 x 7.52 x 2.01 inch

Weight

185 g / 6.53 oz

Information source

- - Manufacturers Literature Development of Radiotron transmitting tubes to 193
Saga of the Vacuum Tube, Tyne p. 323
-- Collector info (Sammler)
Tube Lore (II)


UV217 Anonymous 10 Collector More ...	Just Qvigstad	UV217: Banneitz, TB der drahtl. Teleph. 1927 Anonymous 15 Collector

Collection of

Robert Gillespie (USA)

UV217

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