Your MX-10130D/UV is not an Autogated tube. The Autogated version of that tube is the MX-10130E/UV and so are the MX-11769A, MX-10160B, and MX-10160C. ITT Pinnacles have a "G" in their model numbers such as F9810AG, F9810WG, etc. The Power Supplies, older ones being labeled K&M, new ones being labeled ITT are different for the Pinnacle tubes. Non Autogated tubes have two set of digits separated by a dash, i.e. 272864-8 and 273297-26 while Autogated tubes have three sets of digits separated by dashes, i.e. 272867-9-067 and 272867-9-086.
The best way to know if a tube is an Autogated tube is the audible whining noise that they make. Last night I was building up some PVS-14s in support of the 1033 Program. After replacing a flex strip on an ITT MX-11769/UV and installing it in a PVS-14 I noted the whining noise. The tube worked well so I knew that the noise was not an internal short or arc like I have heard in MX-9916/UVs. The tube was incorrectly labeled, the only one I have ever seen out of about 1000 Gen III tubes I have tested.
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