[Boatanchors] Tube ID's

[J. Forster]

TUNGAR has Argon, not Mercury. (TUNG = Tungsten; AR = Argon)

-John

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>>
>> While going thru some more boxes of tubes i found the following.
>
>> Then there is the GE , 4 pin mounted on what looks like it was a memade
>> socket but then it may have been factory.  Can't tell.  Anyway the tube
>> (it appears to be one anyway) is id'd on the base as "..NGAR Bulb 3AT.
>> 16
>> X 897" made by GE.  Now i'm not sure of the 3 in 3AT but the AT is
>> correct.  Three very distinct elements standing vertical inside.  Any
>> ideas on this one?
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>
> TUNGAR Bulb...  a rectifier common in low voltage ca 1930s-1950s battery
> chargers. Mercury inside, maybe.
>
> The B-H maybe a rectifier for B Battery replacement in early farm radios.
> Raytheon started out making them.
>
> -John
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