5822P

Insulated coated version of the water-cooled 5822 ignitron for industrial welder control. Its mercury-discharge construction provides heavy-current controlled rectification and switching.

Directly heatedCold cathodeCommon cathodeDissimilarSpecialized

Sections: 1
Base: -
Socket code: -
Base pins: -
Nominal heater: -

Description

Water-cooled ignitron for welder-control service; the source also lists an insulated coated 5822/P version with the same electrical ratings.

General specifications

Tube and section characteristics

Properties common to every published source and operating point.

Heater and base

Base: -
Socket code: -
Base pins: -
Nominal heater voltage: -
Nominal heater current: -
Parallel heater voltage: -
Parallel heater current: -
Series capable: No

Terminal pinout

Electrical assignments shared by every tube using this base designation.

No verified pinout is recorded for this base designation.

Section ratings

1 physical section, each with unique specifications.

Section 1

IgnitronPowerSwitch

X-ray radiationInterelectrode capacitances

No fixed ratings are recorded for this section.

Promoted only where the locked section schema has a direct semantic match; device-specific thyratron, magnetron, transmitting-tube, ignitron, and broadband data are retained in TUBE_SECTION_PARAMETER.

Source-dependent data

Operating conditions by source

Each block preserves the test conditions and published values from one reference. Values from different sources are intentionally kept separate.

Data set 01

1958 Amperex Industrial

Published operating points and test conditions from this source.

SECTION 1

IgnitronPowerSwitch

Other

RMS voltage minimum
220 V
Ignitron;WelderControl
RMS voltage maximum
600 V
Ignitron;WelderControl
Maximum KVA demand
424 kVA
Ignitron;WelderControl
Corresponding average current
20 A
Ignitron;WelderControl
Maximum average-current corresponding KVA demand
188 kVA
Ignitron;WelderControl
Corresponding current
70 A
Ignitron;WelderControl
Cooling
Water
Ignitron