Rectifier - Half Wave ·Rectifier
High-current directly heated xenon half-wave rectifier with tantalum anode. Its massive filament and gas-assisted conduction provide roughly sixteen amperes for low-voltage heavy industrial supplies.
EL16F is a half-wave xenon rectifier tube using tantalum anode and xenon gas filling. The datasheet publishes filament, anode-current, inverse-voltage, arc-drop and operating ratings.
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
Xenon rectifier section.
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.
D-c. Meter Value - Continuous
16 A
Oscillograph Peak - Continuously Recurring
96 A
Peak Inverse Voltage
620 V
Filament Voltage
2.5 V
Filament Current
36 A
Heating Time Minimum
3 min
Maximum Short Circuit Current
1000 A
Maximum Commutation Factor
0.66 V/us x A/us
Average Arc Drop
7 V
Data set 02
Published operating points and test conditions from this source.
Continuous DC anode current
16 A
Overload anode current
32 A
LessThan10Seconds
Continuously recurring peak anode current
96 A
Peak inverse voltage
620 V
Minimum filament heating time
180 s
Average arc drop, average tube
7 V
Average arc drop, highest/end-of-life tube
10 V
Filament current tolerance
3.5 A
Gas filling
Xenon
Anode material
Tantalum