6504

Double-grid water-cooled mercury-pool ignitron designed for railroad-locomotive rectifier service.

Directly heatedCold cathodeCommon cathodeDissimilarSpecialized

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

Description

The GL-6504 is a double-grid ignitron for railroad-locomotive rectifier service, with a coaxial cathode-current return for magnetic shielding and mercury-pool baffles that maintain ignitor contact during equipment sway.

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

Rectifier peak inverse voltage: 4000 V
Rectifier nominal output current: 350 A
Rectifier peak forward current: 1250 A

Special-purpose data not represented by fixed promoted fields are preserved in TUBE_SECTION_PARAMETER. Ignitron/mercury-pool data semantically matching rectifier inverse-voltage and current fields were promoted; remaining grid, ignitor, auxiliary-anode, thermal, and fault ratings are parameters.

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

1968 General Electric Co

Published operating points and test conditions from this source.

SECTION 1

IgnitronPowerSwitch

Other

The GL
6504 C
Inlet Water Temperature minimum
30 C
Outlet Water Temperature maximum
55 C
Water Temperature Rise maximum
6.5 C
Pressure Drop at
10 gal/min
Inverse
4000 V
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Forward
100 V
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Peak
1250 A
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Maximum Inverse Voltage
5 V
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Root Mean Square
15 A
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Average
2 A
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Maximum Averaging Time
10 s
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Peak Inverse
200 V
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Peak Inverse
200 mA
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty
Peak Inverse Oy
1 A
Power-Rectifier Service %, Continuous Duty