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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: kagliostro on September 08, 2025, 03:51:52 am

Title: How to identify a tube in the ecl/pcl range ???
Post by: kagliostro on September 08, 2025, 03:51:52 am
Yesterday I've find in my stock about 10 tubes I got 7 years ago

they are surely NOS, selled without a box (if I remember correctly I payed it really on the cheap)

They are surely triode/pentode tubes but on it there isn't a standard Tube Label, only a number

My memory is I got it as ecl8* or pcl8* tubes but I don't remember if they are the 82 or 84 or 86 models, may be pcl86 but not sure at all  :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead:


What can I do to identify it correctly ? (I've an emission tube tester to perform measures, the other one that can measure gm need some manutention)

Many Thanks

Franco