250TH would be my first choice...except that I already have two homebrew rigs that use that tube in the final--one single-ended and one push-pull. I'd prefer a little variety, so something I'm not already running would be nice, though maybe not possible.
I do like the looks of the bottle-style tubes--203, 810, the Amperex versions--those are mean looking tubes. 73, Don Merz, N3RHT --- Donald Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 250TH looks very much like an 806, and as I > recall, the filament > voltage is the same. It would be easy enough to > fabricate pin adaptors if > you can't find some commercially made ones. Eimac > made two versions of the > 100T, 250T and 450T series, some of which had > smaller (807 size) caps and > others, that had simple pins coming through the > glass. In fact, some of the > new-in-the-box Eimac tubes I have seen with caps, > used caps that were > attached over the pins with setscrews, and could be > removed to accomodate > pin connectors as needed. > > I think a 250TH would be much closer to the original > than a graphite plate > bottle like the 810. Hovever, I prefer the bottle > style of tube, since they > seem to be more durable. Of the 806/250T/H-K style > tubes, I have found a > much higher percentage of duds, even with N.O.S. > tubes, than with graphite > plate tubes. > > Don k4kyv > > _______________________________________________________________ > > This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard > layout. > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ > http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Home: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
