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Meaning of "pentode"

Pentode is a type of electronic component or vacuum tube with five active electrodes
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  • A thermionic valve similar to a tetrode with the addition of a third grid, the suppressor grid to reduce the secondary emission effect; was/is used in high quality audio and radio products.

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A pentode is an electronic device having five active electrodes.
This tube was called the pentode.
Pentode mode has more headroom and volume than triode.
Typical usage of a pentode.
The pentode contributed to the electronic preponderance of the Allies.
Similar circuits could be described wherein the active component is a tetrode o a pentode.
Pentode tubes were first used in consumer-type radio receivers.
All these models employed output transformers and beam tetrode or pentode tubes for increased efficiency.
Pentode / Triode, Select how the tube is used, either in triode or in pentode mode.
An indirectly heated dual Pentode.
LF6 beam power pentode with anode cap.
The design introduced significantly less third-harmonic distortion into the signal than did the pentode.
However, in very early American guitar amplifier designs a pentode was used in the preamplifier circuit.
Disadvantages of the beam tetrode were, It had higher inherent intermodulation distortion than the pentode.
Another input stage with a pentode connection and 20dB more gain,.

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The Colossus computer and the Manchester Baby used large numbers of EF36 pentode tubes.
EL84 is an output pentode for use in guitar and Hi-Fi amplifiers.
This channel is based on the EF86 preamplifier pentode valve.
In 1928 the company introduced the first pentode valve to the British market.
It is a type of electron-coupled oscillator ( ECO ), which uses a tetrode or pentode tube.
The Artisan 100 power amplifier uses four EL34 power pentode valves in Class AB bias.
The EL34 is a thermionic valve or vacuum tube of the power pentode type.
The beam tetrode design of the 6L6 allowed RCA to circumvent Philips ' pentode patent.
But perhaps the 6CA7 is different, since it is a beam tetrode, not a pentode.
This switch changes the power amplifier from triode mode ( 10 Watts ) to pentode mode 30 Watts.

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