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Can anyone tell me if the 4-400 on my vacuum tube means 4 volts? How do I tell what voltage the large RCA tube is as there is only RCA 105 written on it?

I'm making them into lights and want to make them glow. I understand that I connect the heater pin to an AC/DC adapter of the correct voltage.

JRE
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Craig
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  • 5v+-.25v. At 14.5 Amps says the data sheet http://www.tubecollectors.org/eimac/archives/4400a(48).pdf perhaps more heat than light. – glen_geek Mar 04 '17 at 22:36
  • Can you find a datasheet for the tube? 3-6V covers most tube heater voltages, but big ones can need many tens of amps )not your average plug pack). If you've got access to a variable power supply (either a DC one with lots of amps, or a little AC variac feeding a beefy step-down transformer), try slowly cranking up the voltage until you get that nice yellow glow (unless the thing's an "indirectly heated cathode" in which case, you might not get quite so much light out of it as the filament may be hidden inside the cathode block) – Sam Mar 04 '17 at 22:39
  • The filament voltage and current are hardly important enough parameters to command centre stage on the envelope. – Chu Mar 05 '17 at 00:17

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A quick search for "Eimac 4-400A" found a datasheet which says that the filament is 5 volts, 14.5 amps

A search for "RCA 105 Datasheet" shows the 105 is a mercury-vapour thyatron with a 5 volt, 10 amp heater.

Peter Bennett
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Same here

  • 4A is the continuous Amp rating
  • 400A is the max surge Amp rating ......................

http://frank.pocnet.net/sheets/049/1/105.pdf

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Tony Stewart EE75
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