Vacuum-Tubes

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“I make things, mostly technological, but don’t hold me to that, consistency is not a human virtue. Electronics and software, cast iron and plastics, microcontrollers in vintage automobiles, faux historical machinery that could (not) have been; finely crafted, rigorously rugged, reliable, most often.”

Tom Jennings – World Power Systems

The Model 01a (aka M01a) is a 3″ x 5.5″ self-contained controller board designed for embedded applications. It’s based around Microchip Inc’s in-circuit-programmable 14-bit PICs, and contains I/O expansion, a power supply and various goodies that I found useful in five years of using my previous controller board design.

WPS Model 01a Control Engine

WPS Model 01a Control Engine

The M01 board contains enough support hardware to pull off a lot of functionality. Before I get to handling common interface problems here’s a function-by-function description of the hardware. There’s some subtlety to some of the design that’s worth paying attention to.

Index of www.wps.com, by subject

Technical reference data; obsolete, obscure, hard to find, and sometimes just plain old; mostly things made or written by others.

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Yes, there were electric lights powered by central stations before Edison’s! Carbon arc lamps saw extensive use throughout the USA and the world from the late 1870s on. – Charles Brush

Museum Of Electricity – Charles Brush

The General Electric Company was formed in 1892. It was the result of a meger between the Edison General electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company, which themselves incorporated several other companies.

Museum Of Electricity - Charles Brush

Electricity, technology, and lots of arcs and sparks!

Museum Of Electricity contains Vintage Electrical and Historical images and description. They include the Edison Lamp, Tesla Coils, Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity and the …..

Amazing Jacob’s Ladder

So how do they work?  First two conductive metal rods are positioned in a rough “V” shape with a slight space between them at the base.  A sufficient voltage differential is provided from a high voltage transformer to breakdown the air in the gap between the rods.

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“At the age of 10 we moved to Copenhagen for about 2 years. I had some friends there who knew that I liked old radios so regularly someone brought me one. (See my picture at the main page) Among them was the Bang & Olufsen – Grand Prix 48 K (photo). I liked this radio so much that I wanted to make it work again. There was not much wrong so I got it working. Later when we were back in Eindhoven, I made so many …….”

Franks Electron tube Pages

Franks Electron tube Pages

Frank Philipse – Waalre, the Netherlands.

  • Tube Number Systems
  • American Substitutes for Foreign Types
  • Foreign Substitutes for American Types

The tube data resides on several mirror sites in several countries and they are exactly equal, except for the Poland site which additionally has been equipped with a tube search.

More about Frank’s Experiments

“Back in Eindhoven, there where the 60’s. Radio Luxembourg on my B&O etc. I got interest in guitars and amplifiers. I built several Amps. My first amp was something with the EF11 and the EL3. I also built a copy of the Philips EL6431 Amplifier. (That’s where the output transformer of my B&O radio went) In Eindhoven there was a repair shop called ‘De Radiodokter’. He had some old TV chassis in the display for 5 guilders each. When I had saved enough money, I bought some. Then when I was about 16 I made my first really working TV from these parts.”

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Ronald Dekker’s Nixie Tube Projects and Software. He has many interesting projects like “Mixed-Signal” LED clock, The µTracer, a miniature tube curve tracer. A Tiny 80(C)31 Basic Board.

Electronic Projects of Ronald

(Image Below Colored and Enhanced by me- ananth delabs)

Ronald Dekker's Projects

NIXIE II A Talking NIXIE Alarm Clock! This Nixie Alarm clock will wake you up with a personal wake-up message or sound. A “wav” file stored in EPROM is played using only a few counters and a DA converter.

The µSCOPE – A poormans OscilloScope

“These days this obviously can be done much simpler. The present generation of micro controllers is so powerful that such a videoscope concept can be realized almost completely in software. Recently I obtained a sample of the 12f675. On examination of the datasheet of this small 8 pins micro controller from Microchip, it appeared that the small package contained all the components of a miniature videoscope. In short the µSCOPE project was born, with as main objective the challenge of implementing such a relatively complex task in this small micro controller. The result summarized on this web page is a fully functional (memory)scope that samples the analogue input signal and subsequently displays it on a normal TV”

Dmitrij Kazakov’s verion of the µSCOPE

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Some Audio and other Articles/Projects on Vacuum Tubes or Valves. Also he has made Online Calculators .. Bias Tool, Gain Tool and Low crossover cap.
Tube-G Pages from Peter
Vacuum Tube-G Pages from Peter

Some articles written by Alan Kimmel, as it did in the years 1993 to 2004 on the original Tube Labs.

  • The Choke Assisted Mu Stage
  • Why use the Kimmel mu stage
  • 7 A few variations of the mu-stage

Related –
Welborne Labs – Wide assortment of DIY components, kits and factory assembled hi-fi gear.
TubeLab – Dedicated to advancing the state of the art in affordable high end audio.

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Best of ‘In Practice’ on the web – Articles and resources of long-term interest, including switch-mode power supplies.

Russian GS35b triode - Amateur Radio Technical Notebook - GM3SEK

Amateur Radio Technical Notebook – GM3SEK

The Triode Board – PC board and Kit for Triode PA control and protection

The Tetrode Boards – PC boards and Kit for Tetrode PA control and protection.

Cost-effective Ferrite Chokes and Baluns

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Triode Electronics Store Online

Electron Tubes & Tube Amplifier Parts.. “Worldwide Service Neighborhood Prices” Since 1985

Online Tube Amp Kits Transformers Tubes Capacitors Dynaco Upgrades and Parts

Triode Electronics Store

Triode Electronics Store Online - AA764 Blackface Champ DIY Tube Amp Kit

AA764 Blackface Champ DIY Tube Amp Kit

Kit includes a turret board, High Quality Carbon Comp Resistors, and Sprague Orange Drop or Mallory 150 Series capacitors, our 5F2 champ power transformer, TF103 Output Transformer, Replacement Filter Capacitor ……. etc.