On 1/05/2018 11:20 PM, John-Del wrote:
On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 7:46:43 AM UTC-4, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 5/1/18 6:13 AM, Unlisted wrote:
For a battery charger, you do NOT want a silicone rectifier, you want a
SELENIUM rectifier. Silicone diodes are far too flimsy and cant handle
the current load. Selenium rectifiers are made to handle all the current
you can pump thru them. and are made to be abused without failing.

Good Lord, what ****ing rock have you been asleep under for the past
fifty year?



Are you saying the advice to use selenium rectifiers "stinks"?

Heh, at least they had their own heatsinks :-)