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Tube-type bridge rectifier
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From: Thomas McGahee [SMTP:tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com]
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 1998 5:13 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Tube-type bridge rectifier
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Bill,
Try getting your hands on an old x-ray machine. Many of them
contain HV rectifier tubes that can handle reasonably large
currents.
Fr. Tom McGahee
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> From: Bill the arcstarter [SMTP:arcstarter-at-hotmail-dot-com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 1998 2:24 PM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Tube-type bridge rectifier
>
> Coilers,
> I've been contemplating constructing a HV bridge rectifier out of
> tubes, to power (among other things) my coil.
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> I noticed Gary Weaver has used the 1B3GT tube, which looks like 12KV at
> 2.0 ma average current.
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> Can anyone suggest a rectifier tube capable of perhaps 100-200 ma of
> plate current at about 15KV or so? I'd eventually like to move this
> onto my pig...
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> Thanks!
> Bill the arcstarter (tube neophyte)
> http://www.geocities-dot-com/capecanaveral/hangar/6160
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