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This might help ID the British Tubes if they have etched codes.

It's all in fun. If the tubes have acid etched codes near the bottom like Mullard or Amperex tubes these links can help identify who, what, when and where.

It's all in fun. If the tubes have acid etched codes near the bottom like Mullard or Amperex tubes these links can help identify who, what, when and where.

*) Philip, Valvo & Mullard Valve Coding:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/oheinone/valves/pvm-coding.html

Tube Numbering explained:
*) Ã…ke's Tube Numbering:
http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87127076/tabeller/index.htm
*) Tube Numbering Systems (Frank's site)
http://home.wxs.nl/~frank.philipse/frank/tubnum.html
*) Tube Numbering (MachMat's Site): http://www.machmat.com/info/index.htm
*) Russian encoding system: http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop/russianotes.htm
*) Coding systems: http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop/referenc.htm
*) Phillips factory and tube codes: http://www.triodeel.com/images/philipstubecodes.pdf Note that all Philips subsidiary companies (Mullard, Valvo, etc) and all factories that made tubes under Philips license used these codes (Ei, Toshiba, Siemens, etc) so it's not limited to European Philips tubes.PDF file.



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