Electrolytic rectifiers
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:43:50 -0500, Stephen J. Rush wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:42:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
They were used, ca 1920 or so, as cheap, home-made battery-charger
rectifiers, for people who couldn't afford tungar bulbs.
I've also seen old ham literature that mentions medium-voltage bridge
rectifiers built from series strings of lead-aluminum cells. At a time
when each tube cost a fortune, a rectifier you could build from scrap
materials was a godsend.
This looked interesting to me so I Googled, "electrolytic rectifier"
-capacitor and got a ton of info. It seems that some used a borax solution
for an electrolyte.
I learned something today. Thanks all.
Al
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