Gas-filled Tube - List of -tron Tubes

List of -tron Tubes

• Mercury pool tubes
  • Excitron, a mercury pool tube
  • Gusetron or gausitron, a mercury arc pool tube
  • Ignitron, a mercury pool tube
  • Sendytron, a mercury pool tube
• Trignitron, a trade name for a mercury pool tube used in electric welders
• Capacitron, a mercury pool tube
• Corotron, a trade name for a gas-filled shunt regulator, usually contains small quantities of radioactive materials to set the regulated voltage
• Crossatron, a modulator tube
• Kathetron or cathetron, a hot cathode gas filled triode with grid outside of the tube
• Neotron, a pulse generator
• Permatron, a hot cathode rectifier with anode current controlled by magnetic field
• Phanotron, a rectifier
• Plomatron, a grid-controlled mercury-arc rectifier
• Pulsatron, a gas-filled triode with two cathodes
• Strobotron, a cold cathode tube designed for high current narrow pulses, used in high-speed photography
• Takktron, a cold cathode rectifier for low currents at high voltages
• Thyratron, a hot cathode switching tube
• Trigatron, a high-current switch similar to a spark gap
• Alphatron, a form of ionization tube for measuring vacuum
• Dekatron, a counting tube (see also nixie tube and neon light)
• Plasmatron, a hot cathode tube with controlled anode current
• Tacitron, a low-noise thyratron with interruptible current flow
• Krytron, a fast cold-cathode switching tube