On 31/05/2018 7:32 PM, John-Del wrote:
On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 5:38:06 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 11:20:37 AM UTC-4, 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"?

Well then, are you insinuating that the advice to use silicon rectifiers "stinks"?

Perhaps I was just asking him to confirm or otherwise expand on his statement against using selenium in this application, or (more likely) was that I was tweaking the old guys in this forum who remember exactly what odoriferous emanations a selenium rectifier provides as evidence of it's failure..


Golly I hope we can get this all cleared for peoples state of mind !!