AX5555

Water-cooled very-high-current ignitron for heavy industrial resistance-welding control. Its mercury-discharge construction switches and rectifies enormous currents in demanding welding systems.

Directly heatedCold cathodeCommon cathodeDissimilar

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

Description

Water-cooled very-high-current ignitron corresponding to the 5555/653B welder-control family.

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
2400 V
Ignitron;WelderControl
Maximum KVA demand
2400 kVA
Ignitron;WelderControl
Corresponding average current
135 A
Ignitron;WelderControl
Maximum average-current corresponding KVA demand
1105 kVA
Ignitron;WelderControl
Corresponding current
207 A
Ignitron;WelderControl
Cooling
Water
Ignitron