• WARNING: Tube/Valve amplifiers use potentially LETHAL HIGH VOLTAGES.
    Building, troubleshooting and testing of these amplifiers should only be
    performed by someone who is thoroughly familiar with
    the safety precautions around high voltages.

Info/data on tubes

Earlier today, I posted the following on Audiokarma. I think it should be on diyAudio too. Some of it I posted already in bits and pieces, but now it's more 'compressed', and under a better header:

For data on tubes, this is the site I go to:

https://frank.pocnet.net/

Note the "Much More" button in the upper right corner on that site. It leads to a wealth of tube manuals and other books on tube technology. The following link for instance leads to the sub-page with the Philips Series of Books on Electronic Tubes, to which I contributed a couple of books that I scanned myself (but not all are in English though):

https://frank.pocnet.net/other/Philips/SeriesOnElectronTubes.html

Scans of the "Philips Technical Review" and of some other series of research papers by Philips stood on a personal internetpage that was part of a larger Philips site, but some years ago they were all taken off-line. Luckely the scans of the "Philips Technical Review" series all found their way to the "World Radio History" site. But the other series of research papers did not. The same goes for the handy Excel indexes for all the series. But I downloaded all at the time and uploaded them to Google Drive. The links in the indexes themselves don't work anymore but they still are a handy tool for searching. Here are the relevant links:

https://worldradiohistory.com/Philips_Technical_Review.htm

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15eXWd1afpPjQYcKAPBACx0oJB_qvy1za/edit#gid=248973280

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m9aE3j9lX5IpH0vO0DTu1nhvkkQw9FMR

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DFzUd18L5cMMKHzJrmWXwXwOhdtF_TZH

The following link leads to data/pictures/schematics/etc. I gathered through the years on the subject of tube testers. Almost all was found on the internet so don't expect completely new finds. But I think there's no other place on the internet at the moment where so much can be found at one place:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ep0Qgl2wqFCD2sZ4Q0Z3tFoaZxcrU7F2