Most high power transmitter amplifiers are of valve construction because of the high power required. Since valves are designed to operate with much higher...
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television transmitters. Until the invention of the transistor in 1947, most practical high-frequency electronic amplifiers were made using thermionic valves. The...
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stems with integrated transmitters for tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) became available. A valve cap on a Schrader valve prevents the entry of...
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valve or axial check valve Ball valve Butterfly valve Check valve Control valve Diaphragm valve Flow limiter Flow measurement Gate valve Globe valve Mass...
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alternator, and arc transmitters. However, it was not until the development of vacuum-tube (also known as "valve") transmitters that widespread audio...
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Vacuum tube (redirect from Radio valve)
service where solid-state transmitters at nearly all power levels have measurably higher efficiency. FM broadcast transmitters with solid-state power amplifiers...
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power solid state transmitters also require a complex combination of transformers and tuning networks, whereas a valve-based transmitter would use a single...
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A mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (UK) mercury-arc rectifier is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high-voltage or high-current...
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banned by 1934, except for some legacy use on ships. The vacuum tube (valve) transmitters which came into use after 1920 transmitted code by pulses of unmodulated...
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numerous other uses. A transmitter can be a separate piece of equipment, or an electronic circuit within another device. Most transmitters consist of an electronic...
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spark-gap transmitter is an obsolete type of radio transmitter which generates radio waves by means of an electric spark. Spark-gap transmitters were the...
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Diving regulator (redirect from Demand valve)
each stage. The terms "regulator" and "demand valve" (DV) are often used interchangeably, but a demand valve is the final stage pressure-reduction regulator...
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The Fleming valve, also called the Fleming oscillation valve, was a thermionic valve or vacuum tube invented in 1904 by English physicist John Ambrose...
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Laser machine control (section Solenoid valves)
four essential parts: rotating laser transmitter, laser receiver, control unit, solenoid valves. The laser transmitter emits a narrow laser beam which rotates...
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A pneumatic control valve actuator converts energy (typically in the form of compressed air) into mechanical motion. The motion can be rotary or linear...
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pneumatic transmitters and automatic 3-term (PID) controllers. The ranges of pneumatic transmitters were defined by the need to control valves and actuators...
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A valve actuator is the mechanism for opening and closing a valve. Manually operated valves require someone in attendance to adjust them using a direct...
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designing much higher power transmitters using a superior design of valve. This led to the production of 300 kW transmitters, the most powerful in the world...
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Tetrode (redirect from Bi-grid valve)
A tetrode is a vacuum tube (called valve in British English) having four active electrodes. The four electrodes in order from the centre are: a thermionic...
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with an output power of 16 kilowatts delivered by an NEC FBN11K20E valve transmitter. Though almost 20 years old it is fed with all-digital input equipment...
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Arc converter (redirect from Arc transmitters)
used as a radio transmitter from 1903 until the 1920s when it was replaced by vacuum tube transmitters. One of the first transmitters that could generate...
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antenna. The transmitter is capable of transmitting signals to submarines worldwide to depths of approx. 30 metres. In 2016 the transmitters were updated...
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Triode "continuous wave" radio transmitters replaced the cumbersome inefficient "damped wave" spark-gap transmitters, allowing the transmission of sound...
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Klystron (redirect from Klystron valve)
klystrons are used as output tubes in UHF television transmitters, satellite communication, radar transmitters, and to generate the drive power for modern particle...
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transmit controller outputs to the modulating field devices such as control valves. These loops have the advantages of simplicity and noise immunity, and have...
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Mechanism of diving regulators (redirect from Reclaim valve)
mechanical feedback of the downstream pressure to control the opening of a valve which controls gas flow from the upstream, high-pressure side, to the downstream...
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The final element consists of a valve, actuator and solenoids. The scheme above presents three pressure transmitters (PT) connected to a logic solver...
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1920 with the callsign 'GKT' and was equipped with a six-kilowatt valve transmitter and a receiver, guaranteeing a two-way range of 1,500 miles (2,400 km)...
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completed. By this time, however, arc transmitters were becoming obsolete, and valve or vacuum tube transmitters were soon afterwards installed at this...
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Synchro (redirect from Synchro transmitter)
described above, and can be transmitters or receivers. A differential transmitter is connected between a synchro transmitter and a receiver, and its shaft's...
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