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Tube Pin Identification
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Well there are two ways. One is to whip out your handy dandy 1940 tube manual and look it up. Nowdays I look  it it up online. Some schematics have the pin numbers indicated on them some not.

I think you maybe be asking how do I count pins on the bottom of a tube?

Older standard base tubes: 4, 6, and 7 pin tube are simple. Find the two fat pins looking  from the bottom. Face them towards you. The pin on the left is pin#1 count clockwise to determine the others. For instants a 4 pin tube pin 1 is the fat pin to the left. Pin 2 is the thin one above it. Pin 3 is the thin pin to the right of pin 2. And pin 4 is the other fat one.
On the 5 pin tube two of the pins are closer together. Pin 1 is the one on the left of two that are closer together, pin 5 is the one to the right of pin1.
Schematics that don't pin numbers doesn't mean that the connections are layed out in the order in which they appear on the schematic.

I see I'm late to the party! Slow typer.

When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry


Messages In This Thread
Tube Pin Identification - by IowaPhilco - 08-13-2016, 10:48 AM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by klondike98 - 08-13-2016, 12:26 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by David - 08-13-2016, 12:30 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by Radioroslyn - 08-13-2016, 12:49 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by IowaPhilco - 08-13-2016, 01:57 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by Radioroslyn - 08-13-2016, 05:50 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by Radioroslyn - 08-13-2016, 12:55 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by IowaPhilco - 08-13-2016, 01:50 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by Jim Koehler - 08-13-2016, 02:02 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by IowaPhilco - 08-13-2016, 02:03 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by klondike98 - 08-13-2016, 02:15 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by IowaPhilco - 08-13-2016, 02:50 PM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by Radioroslyn - 08-14-2016, 05:53 AM
RE: Tube Pin Identification - by IowaPhilco - 08-14-2016, 12:31 AM



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