[Premium-Rx] Help.... What The Heck Are These ?

[mikea]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:03:30PM -0700, Michael Melland wrote:
> Sorry for the off topic post but someone here "has" to
> know what these are.  I picked up a bunch from the
> physics department at the college I work at a  while
> back ... they were tossing them.  But... try as I
> might I can't determine just what they are.  I do know
> they came from test equipment or microwave gear.
> 
> They are 1 inch long, about .25" diameter on the ends
> with a slightly larger ceramic body.  There is a
> silver metal end and a gold colored end and they
> obviously plug sort of like a fuse.  There is a
> marking like a shotglass with S over T in it and a "+"
> on one end, the number 6846148 on one side of the
> ceramic body... the number M 150 is on the other.
> 
> What the heck are these ? Diode ? Fuse ? Tube of some
> sort ?
> 
> Links to poor photos here:
> 
> http://home.centurytel.net/w9wis/whatsit1.jpg
> http://home.centurytel.net/w9wis/whatsit2.jpg

Looks mighty like some diodes I had back around 1962. You might ohm 
some of them out, or put 'em on a curve tracer.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin