Polam / Telam tubes !

[Francois G]

Got very hot and loads of UV light came from it when it was charging flat car batteries!

Yikes! Loved that beautiful glow!

 

[dhaen]

Wow! I'm amazed at the detail that's coming to be known about these obsolete technologies.
Although I lived through these, there were rarely any questions asked at the time within my industry, they were just products we bought.
Thank you to all contributors, it's fascinating.

 

[AmadeusMozart]

When Philips started to shut down their tube factories the equipment went to Poland. The tubes made there were improved versions of what was made earlier under the hiips name - Polam and Telam tubes are the best Philips versions. Oops, now prices will go up....

 

[Sorento]

I have a couple of POLAMP (with a P at the end !). Also made in Poland.
Any connection with POLAM ?
What does the POLAM logo look like when compared to my POLAMPs ?

 

[AmadeusMozart]

There are plenty of resellers that relabel a tube, in other words the label does not mean much. You will have to look at the innards and compare that with a known tube from the manufacturer. It may be that it came out of the same factory but made to diffeent specifications.

 

[Sorento]

Now we have both, Polam *and* Polamp, both in the same blue box, one w/ P the other w/o ...

 

[Francois G]

Definitely not the same. Polam tubes have different backgrounds than Polamp 😇

 

[izozaya]

I don't know the exact reason for the different branding names, but I am pretty sure that POLAM, POLAMP and TELAM are the same tubes (or at least have the same origin).

 

[OldHector]

There are plenty of Polamp tubes avaiable on the Polish equivalent of eBay, so must just be a brand ...
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