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nubbage
 Post subject: 4CX250K
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:47 am 
 
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Hi
Does anyone have a complete datasheet for the coaxial tetrode tube 4CX250K?
Everyman and his dog on the web can sell me any quatity, but no-one gives a datasheet showing which electrode is which.
BTW I have tried the Eimac web site without success, as they just give a photo image and the basic characteristics. I am really looking for the full data, preferably with circuit design graphs.

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wb9jtk
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:58 am 
 
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4cx250 K ? Cannot find that. Here is 4cx250B
The load-line graph is a scan that is not very high quality.
http://www.pentalaboratories.com/pdfs/4cx250b.pdf


 
   
 
nubbage
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:10 am 
 
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TKS OM
The 4CX250K is the same as the 250B electrically, but mechanically it is fully coaxial, and so does not use the same B8F/SK610 8pin base. It has annulus rings like the 2C39BA.
However, I cannot find anywhere which rings are the screen grid, which the control grid and which the cathode.
The heater rings are obvious enough -doh.
TKS AGN
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fred47
 Post subject: 4CX250K connections
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:00 am 
 
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Hi!

It's simple - you can't cross concentric circles without shorting or breaking them.

So after the heater, going out from the center, you have the cathode, the control grid, the screen grid, and of course the upper enclosure is the plate. They can't come in any other order, because they're rings - cylinders - and the structure of a vacuum tube determines the positioning of the electrodes and their connections.

Good Luck!
Fred AC7--


 
   
 
nubbage
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:48 pm 
 
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Ahh-so
I had not appreciated the internal construction as well as the outside was entirely planar concentric cylinders.
Alimentary, my dear Watnot 8-)

Thanks Fred
73
Nubbage


 
   
 
sm7ovk
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:02 am 
 
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Hi,

I have found a datasheet for the 4CX250K tube, but it's in "paper-format". Are you still interested? I'll can scan it and mail it to you directly.
73
Jens


 
   
 
nubbage
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:07 am 
 
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Hi Jens
Sorry for late reply. I have been on vacation and away from internet access.
(Difficult to achieve these days.)
I have now found the data sheets thanks. All is clear.






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