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Article #17811Re: "Magic Eye" tubes
From: Chris Sylvain
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 22:07
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 22:07
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In article <1838@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: < < Yup, those tubes sure are an anachronism! Some people I knew called <them "Cat's Eye" tubes. < ... What you want is a type 6E5 manufactured by RCA. < ... There is also a 6U5, which is similar to the 6E5. I'm partial to the 6CD7. It's "output" is two, light green semi-circles around a dark "pupil". The semi-circles can be coerced to overlap 10 or 20 degrees or leave open space at the ends of about 50 degrees. Shortwave receivers used them as AM tuning indicators. Much nicer than the "linear" indicators in my opinion. -- --==---==---==-- .. did gyre and gymble in the wabe: .. ARPA: cgs@umd5.UMD.EDU BITNET: cgs%umd5@umd2 UUCP: ..!seismo!umd5.umd.edu!cgs
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!umd5!cgs From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: "Magic Eye" tubes Message-ID: <1797@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 18:07:54 EDT Article-I.D.: umd5.1797 Posted: Fri Jul 17 18:07:54 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:01:22 EDT References: <1495@frog.UUCP> <1838@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 17