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Two-electrode inert-gas cold-cathode voltage-reference tube designed for stable approximately 83 V operation with low fluctuation and temperature sensitivity.
The 453A is a two-electrode inert-gas-filled cold-cathode tube designed primarily as a voltage reference, with stable life and temperature characteristics and relative freedom from voltage jumps.
Medium-shell UX 4-contact
General specifications
Properties common to every published source and operating point.
Electrical assignments shared by every tube using this base designation.
No verified pinout is recorded for this base designation.
1 physical section, each with unique specifications.
Section 1
Published operating/reference range 4–6 mA; absolute maximum cathode current 8 mA.
Source-dependent data
Each block preserves the test conditions and published values from one reference. Values from different sources are intentionally kept separate.
Data set 01
Published operating points and test conditions from this source.
Anode Breakdown Voltage
95 to 105 V
Anode Voltage Drop at 6 mA
81 to 87 V
Regulation 4–6 mA
- to 1.2 V
Temperature Sensitivity at 5 mA
-0.0035 V/C
Fluctuation
- to 0.005 V
Average Ionization Time
5 ms
Voltage Jump
5 mV