roberjerman - tubeworld contradicts your finding that the
6H30 DR
and
6CG7/6FQ7
are equivalents
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a 6FQ7/6CG7 is electrically similar to a 6SN7GT, but a 6FQ7/6CG7 has 9 pins versus 8 for a 6SN7GT
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and from fourwater
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To address this problem, the 6CG7 was created which simply
put the 6SN7 elements into a 9 pin minature tube. The main
difference is that the plates of the two sections are
slightly closer together because of the narrow confines of
miniature tube. They did add a twist though, since there
were 9 pins available, they decided to add a shield between
the two triode sections and bring it out on the extra pin.
This was used to keep the two sections isolated, which can be
especially useful for high frequency use. This made the tube
slightly more expensive to make, so later the 6FQ7 was created
which eliminated the internal shield.
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