C battery

an electric battery for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

Use the proper value of C-battery as determined from your study of the characteristic of the tube.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son|John Mills
Usually, therefore, we arrange to shift the characteristic by using a C-battery.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son|John Mills
Choose your C-battery for amplification and not detection and try to receive.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son|John Mills
What effect is this C-battery, or grid-battery, going to have on the current in the plate circuit?
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son|John Mills

As long as we do not use a higher voltage than 188that of the C-battery which is in the box no current can flow.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son|John Mills