The Nude Tube vacuum pressure sensor is a Bayard-Alpert style ionization vacuum sensor, which uses a fine wire collector located in the center of a grid. Because of its small area, few x-rays hit the collector, and a vacuum gauge can measure pressures to very low levels. Because the sensing portion of the tube is located within the vacuum system and experiences the system true pressure, nude tubes give a representative pressure measurement and respond more quickly than a glass envelope sensor to pressure changes.

Nude Hot Cathode Ionization Vacuum Pressure Sensors are for use with only the 946 Vacuum System Controller and 937B Vacuum Gauge Controller.