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Specialized - Ignitron ·IgnitronPowerSwitch

AX5552

Water-cooled sensing-plate ignitron for high-current industrial welder control. Its mercury-discharge construction provides controlled heavy-current switching and rectification.

Directly heatedCold cathodeCommon cathodeDissimilar
Sections
1
Base
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Socket code
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Base pins
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Nominal heater
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Description

Water-cooled sensing-plate ignitron for high-current welder-control service.

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; remaining transmitting, receiving, thyratron, ignitron, capacitance, and control 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

1963 Amperex Condensed

Published operating points and test conditions from this source.

SECTION 1

IgnitronPowerSwitch

Other

  • RMS voltage range

    250-600 V

    Ignitron;WelderControl

  • Maximum KVA demand

    1200 kVA

    Ignitron;WelderControl

  • Corresponding average current

    75.6 A

    Ignitron;WelderControl

  • Maximum average-current corresponding KVA demand

    400 kVA

    Ignitron;WelderControl

  • Corresponding current

    140 A

    Ignitron;WelderControl

  • Cooling

    Water

    Ignitron