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Description: | Heavy black metal disc with one large hole surrounded by eight smaller holes in the top. At one end is a glass tube with a metal rod through it. At the other end are two black rods with glass tubes attached and brass pieces on the end. The glass tubes have thin metal rods through them. Inscribed on the back is CV64 SERIAL NO 819L. Early example of a 'strapped magentron' and the serial no. suggests this is an early example. Details on http://www.tubecollector.org/cv64.htm describe the device as generating 3.3 GHz microwaves at a mean power of 350 W and peak power (for AI Mk VIII radar) of 40 KW. Peak anode conditions are 13 kV at 10 A, needing a magnetic field of 0.135 T. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1942-1945 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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