B. W. Salt. wrote:

In article , B Stanton
(ll.com) wrote:


There are also rectifiers that look like multiple square
pieces of metal separated by some rectifying material.


Those are selenium rectifiers. No longer used except as replacements in
very old equipment. Smell like rotten eggs when they fail.

Definitely not a good thing to breathe in.

I still have a
battery charger that uses selenium...


Do people repair
older equipment with this stuff for "authenticity?"


Might well be so in the case of the capacitors, but one would have to be
really dedicated to authenticity, I would think, unless a modern component
doesn't fit the bill.




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