In my ARC REF 3 I 'm using a Tungsol 6550 tube with the following code written on the metal base 322NU 3 , it is a smooth grey plate , without holes in the plate .I know 322 is the factorycode of Tungsol and normally the 322 is followed by eq 63=year 45=week 3= shift ?.But I have seen also 322HN-3 and RM-3 .Is there any list of these codes ? Any help would be wonderfull
Up until now NO info about the code 's , so we have to look at the tube itself and with the help of the info supplied by TUBEWORLD we can see : Black plates,1-2-3 getters 1950-1960 Smooth gray plates,all without holes 1960-1963 Gray plates with holes 1963-1970 If supplied with the 322 63=year 45=week 3=shift you have a refference .
Just as a point of information, Tung-Sol (the company that invented the 6550), introduced the first version of the 6550 in 1955 with the single getter black plate.
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