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Old 16th Oct 2019, 9:18 am   #41
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Default Re: Why Both EAA91 and EB91?

I have a later 6AL5 which is only 31mm in height.
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Old 20th Oct 2019, 7:11 pm   #42
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Default Re: Why Both EAA91 and EB91?

Interesting. Checking service manuals the Brimar 8D3 appeared in the first post war KB television receivers from 1947, the CV40. HMV did not employ the Z77 until the release of the 1805 in 1949 as did GEC.
Vidor used the EF42 in 1947 but most large manufacturers went straight to the EF91 from the EF50 in 1949. We will never know! Regards, John.
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Old 20th Oct 2019, 7:17 pm   #43
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Hi all,

to give a slightly different twist to this story:
To start the EB91 was introduced within Philips/Mullard in 1946. The two TV sets designed that year (the 363A and 563A, where the middle 6 indicated the design year 1946) both used the EB91. See the full story here.
As already suggested and discussed, the 90-series seems to have originated from the UK Mullard valve design group, first order for local UK marketing only.

As to the valve naming, and knowing the Philips way of thinking from the inside, I'm pretty sure there was a kind of rule "keep the valve name as short as possible given the available coding scheme". So a double diode was B, with the EB91 succeeding the EB4. Because there were no codes for triple diodes the triple diode-triode had to be the EABC80.

But then all of sudden around 1950 other companies (Telefunken?) introduce a double diode as EAA91, although the specs were roughly identical. Strictly spoken not a violation of the coding system, but clearly not in line with the Philips coding methodology. Because the Philips Radio Valves division had the policy to offer all main valves sold in their markets, they required an answer to this EAA91. One option was to start a campaign explaining that the EAA91 and EB91 were identical, but the EB91 the best of the two. A pragmatic alternative was to relabel the EB91 also to EAA91, and offer both in parallel. Although there was also the corporate rule not to issue unnecessary product codes (every code cost money for administration), in this case having both codes was probably deemed the most cost effective one.

With the result that both the EAA91 and EB91 co-existed, although as far as I can see no EAA91s were used in Philips sets, only the EB91.

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Old 20th Oct 2019, 7:31 pm   #44
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What you didn't address is that in this case is, according to the codes, they seem to have existed in parallel as different (not relabeled) valves. Only after some unspecified amount of time, EB91 and EAA91 became the same valve, presumably using the envelope specs of the EAA91.
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Default Re: Why Both EAA91 and EB91?

Thanks, Pieter, for the background.

It looks then as if the EAA91 was an unexpected complication as far as Philips/Mullard was concerned.

Presumably the third party (possibly/probably)Telefunken wanted to introduce an exact copy, physically and electrically, of the American 6AL5. Given that the EB91 designation was already taken by Philips/Mullard for a valve that was electrically similar to but physically different from the 6AL5, that third party felt that it needed a different designation, and for whatever reason it picked EAA91.

As a sidebar, I think that Telefunken may also have been the originator of the ECC85, with Philips being the follower in that case. Philips Book IIIB, which covered the FM-AM radio valves, did not mention the ECC85. Rather the EC92/UC92 was the Philips VHF radio (single) triode at that time.


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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 8:32 am   #46
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Presumably the third party (possibly/probably)Telefunken wanted to introduce an exact copy, physically and electrically, of the American 6AL5. Given that the EB91 designation was already taken by Philips/Mullard for a valve that was electrically similar to but physically different from the 6AL5, that third party felt that it needed a different designation, and for whatever reason it picked EAA91.
"Whatever reason" is probably the operative phrase... personally I would have gone for EB92! But I guess we will never know now.
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