• 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.

Oh yeah, 7KY6

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Very cool -- mu~30 and rp ~ 1K ... is that right? Pins are only slightly different from a 6688 or 7788, and it looks like a nice cheap lower mu alternative to those.

I've been looking for something to build a push-pull amp out of with some 5K:8 transformers, and didn't want to use the 2A3's I'm supposed to. These look to fit the bill quite nicely.
 
This appears to be the same as an 11HM7 with a different heater. It makes a good driver tube for sure, especially in pentode mode.

Have you looked at the screen dissipation when in triode mode? A lot of the high Gm video pentodes when triode connected quickly exceed the G2 power ratings... G2 is usually the limiting factor (not the plate dissipation).

Also, as a triode, the miller capacitance is probably pretty high.

Pete

(some related pentode data: http://www.pmillett.com/pentodes.htm)
 
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