THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — ECC83

Well, I'll bet you will all be sitting down top a Yuletide lunch with lots of frivolity, mince pies and sherry; me, I'll be eating a hastily microwaved Farmfoods fish pie all because Mrs Mullard Magic is displeased with her Christmas present. I had thought long and hard about this, a new ironing board cover (no), a pack of Christmas packaged starch to treat my foundation garments (no), another classic car (definately not), perhaps a radio (even worse!!).  And THEN it came to me... a greenhouse so I got her a very special one and as I am from Yorkshire...

You can read more about this Noval based twin triode on one of my valve product pages but here, today we have an excerpt from a Mullard 1954 press release extolling the vital statistics of this versatile and today revered device:

In late 1952, a new range of Mullard B9A Noval based valves having 6.3V heaters were introduced aimed at use in audio amplifiers. PRE-AMPLIFIER - type EF86 now replaced the EF37A or EF40 having similar charcteristics to the EF40 with a gain of up to 140 being achievable.  The heater of the EF86 is rated at 6.3V @ 200mA. DOUBLE-TRIODES - three new devices were made available  - the ECC81 being a medium impedance valve, the ECC82 a low impedance and the ECC83 a high impedance.  All designs have independant cathodes for each section, centre tapped and capable of operation...