Data set 01
1958 Compagnie General
Published operating points and test conditions from this source.
SECTION 1
Rectifier
Characteristics
Gas filling
Mercury vapor
Warmup time minimum
60 s
Other
Short-circuit current
100 A
Rectifier - Half Wave ·Rectifier
VH8600
Directly heated hot-cathode mercury-vapor rectifier for high-current, high-voltage supplies. Its massive filament and low arc voltage provide multiampere industrial output.
Directly heatedCold cathodeCommon cathodeDissimilar
- Sections
- 1
- Base
- -
- Socket code
- -
- Base pins
- -
- Nominal heater
- 5 V / 18 A
Description
Hot-cathode mercury-vapor single-anode rectifier for high-current high-voltage power supplies.
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
- 5 V
- Nominal heater current
- 18 A
- 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
Rectifier
X-ray radiationInterelectrode capacitances
- Rectifier peak inverse voltage
- 18000 V
- Rectifier nominal output current
- 2.5 A
- Rectifier peak forward current
- 10 A
- Rectifier forward voltage drop
- 12 V
- Rectifier warm-up time
- 60 s
Published source values promoted where applicable; additional electrical, storage, RF, pulse and cooling data retained as 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.