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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: blown240 on October 19, 2011, 05:04:54 pm

Title: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: blown240 on October 19, 2011, 05:04:54 pm

I went to my local amp guy and swapped some 6V6 tubes for some 6L6.  I just realized that the tubes I got say 6N3C.

Is this a 6L6?

(http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj26/thebattens/Philco/2011-10-19143647.jpg)

Title: Re: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: Iannone on October 19, 2011, 05:23:18 pm

No.

The 6N3 is a diode rectifier tube.

Title: Re: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: blown240 on October 19, 2011, 05:32:24 pm

I am pretty sure that a 6N3 is not the same as a 6N3C. 

The 6N3 doesnt look like what I have. 

I know some say that the 6N3C is the same as a 6L6, but I wanted the advice from you guys here, because some places say they are different.

Title: Re: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: sluckey on October 19, 2011, 05:35:33 pm

Google is your friend.

Title: Re: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: Mats on October 19, 2011, 05:38:37 pm

Hi
Or is it an 6P3-tube

Title: Re: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: darryl on October 19, 2011, 05:46:45 pm

The translation from Cyrillic to Western alphabet is a source of confusion here.

The Russian 6π3C translates to 6P3S.

The 6P3S is generally considered to be equivalent to the 6L6G.

The more robust 6P3S-E is approximately equivalent to the 6L6GC.

http://www.tubes.ru/techinfo/HiFiAudio/6p3s.html (http://www.tubes.ru/techinfo/HiFiAudio/6p3s.html)

Title: Re: Is This The Right Tube
Post by: firemedic on October 19, 2011, 05:48:45 pm

Yeah, looks like a power tube plate w/ a single filament.