Goofy additon: vaccume tubes

[pastados]

Ok well someone from the college I am going to, Neumont U., inherited some equipment including several boxes of electron tubes from his grandfather and he just sold me a box of the things. Now I am not about to try to make an Eniac, Univac, or Maniac or even a Brainiac, but I could probably make some measuring instrumebts or keep the old osciloscope I have running or do some tesla stuff, but I have no way to know what the pinout of these tubes are. Anyone know I good resource? I sure would like to be able to put the 40 buck I just invested in these antiques to use. I hate idle antiques. I always must use what I buy. lol So any helpful data would be appreciated.

Oh yeah and are there drivers out there for linux or Windows XP or Vista for running an 8 inch floppy drive?

[per]

Oh yeah and are there drivers out there for linux or Windows XP or Vista for running an 8 inch floppy drive?

Compatible drivers are one thing, a compatible floppy disk drive controller is even more imporiant. Many computers that run xp/vista don't even have a FDD controller, and if they have, it is a low quality one!

[pastados]

Ok so what about the pinouts of the tubes? I need to do something with them. lol

[James0555]

You need a Tube Substitution Handbook they usually have a pin out guide. If you post a list of the tube numbers would help and see what can be found. I had a book, I'll see if I still do.

[James0555]

I did a quick search and found this web page - it may have all you need.

http://tdsl.duncanamps.com/tubesearch.php

[pastados]

Thanks. that one is awsome. Now I can make things.

[Micom 2000]

An excellent site. I have boxes of tubes, it could prove useful, but of course not all tubes are for sound amplifiers.

Not to discourage you, but unless one is repairing older tube devices or wants the "tube sound" most solid state devices outperform tubes. With a wiring pegboard, adjustable power supply, a good electronics book, and a source for parts, there's an open vista for "making things" with transistors. That is also based on a knowledge of what "parts" do.

With tubes you are dealing with many dfferent voltages, some quite dangerous to the uninitiated. Solid state at most will gve you a mild shock, more a "tingle". Even with the high potential of most Cathode tubes, most accidents occur because of your reaction to the shock. Tubes were a remarkable advance in technology, but unless there is something special tubes did that solid state can't attain, again, I"d mention the analogue sound, best to be avoided unless you know what you are doing or hope to attain.

Lawrence

[Druid6900]

MacIntosh used to make a hell of a tube based audio power amp. Most GREAT guitar amps, I believe are still tubes and, if you ever want to make a 5 tube superhet AM radio, tubes come in kinda handy LOL

[pastados]

An excellent site. I have boxes of tubes, it could prove useful, but of course not all tubes are for sound amplifiers.

Not to discourage you, but unless one is repairing older tube devices or wants the "tube sound" most solid state devices outperform tubes. With a wiring pegboard, adjustable power supply, a good electronics book, and a source for parts, there's an open vista for "making things" with transistors. That is also based on a knowledge of what "parts" do.

With tubes you are dealing with many dfferent voltages, some quite dangerous to the uninitiated. Solid state at most will gve you a mild shock, more a "tingle". Even with the high potential of most Cathode tubes, most accidents occur because of your reaction to the shock. Tubes were a remarkable advance in technology, but unless there is something special tubes did that solid state can't attain, again, I"d mention the analogue sound, best to be avoided unless you know what you are doing or hope to attain.

Lawrence

I bought the box becuase somewhere when I was reading about tesla coils, it said that instruments for such projects are better made with tubes because of the higher voltages where solid state could be more easily fried. Don't worry about me and high voltage, I've had experience and am careful, and one cannot be initated into high voltage anyway without have experience somehow and that risk must be taken of I'm to continue getting experience.

I also bought an old osciliscope which has tubes, so it will be nice to be able to repair it.

Now other than that, I can also joke with my friends that I have part of the internet, since the Alaskan Senator thinks that is what the internet is like. lol. So yeah I did buy this box of ancient artifacts with a purpose in mind, among them is not computation. I don't plan on making an Eniac of sorts, I just want to be able to make higher voltage regulation and mesurment instrumentation.

[pastados]

You need a Tube Substitution Handbook they usually have a pin out guide. If you post a list of the tube numbers would help and see what can be found. I had a book, I'll see if I still do.

It is a series, lol, I mean a box of tubes, so posting the numbers would be evil, so I just am using the tdsl site posted (thanks for that guys) and just look up as is and store the pdfs in my HD. If you have a pdf of this handbook of which you speak, that would be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I have a couple of antique books about stuff like that. I think they just discuss theory though, they are not handbooks of ancient pinout.

[Tinkerer]

Darn! My father once took a Bell & Howell course in electronics in the 1970s. It was through Heathkit, I think. Throughout the course he aquired a ton of test equipment. Some of what he had were a tube tester and a tube guide book. He gave it all away abot two years ago.

[pastados]

Well I'm the person to hold on to equipment for as long as I can. I am such a pak-rat. I love both old and new tech. Well I'll post when that guy sells some other stuff he wants to sell. Just a bunch of old testing equipment. My collection of oddball equipment will grow until I have a giga-lightyear laboratory and even then it will grow faster than the speed of light. lol