Re: Where to get high voltage diodes?

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Original poster: "tesla by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-paradise-dot-net.nz>

Hi
Microwave Oven all have a multi KV diode in them cheap if you can get them
when they are at the dump
Best
Ted L in NZ
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:04 AM
Subject: Where to get high voltage diodes?


> Original poster: "Garry F. by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> About six months ago (It seems a year), I paid someone on the list for a
> high-voltage rectifier circuit. They had made an MMC for me and it works
> excellently, and they were talking about how I could have DC voltage and
> have an assync gap and I also thought this would be great for preventing
> voltage ring-up and so I took them up on the offer and to my
dissapointment,
> the circuit has never been forthcoming. ;-( I mentioned it three times and
> I've decided to give up for two reasons ....
>
> #1 The fellow sent me an MMC that was worth far more than I paid for it
even
> worth more than what I paid for the MMC after adding in what I paid for
the
> rectifier.
>
> #2. The individual is just flaking out and I don't want to be a pest about
> it any more. He hasn't even cashed the money order.
>
> I guess this further makes the point that for the most part we can trust
> each-other to deal honestly with each-other, *but* we are still human and
> some of us tend to put things off, sometimes forever.
>
> I hope this note to the list will motivate the person to either build the
> thing or just come out and say they haven't the time to build it but I
won't
> be holding my breath.
>
> This still leaves me without a rectifier and I could just guess around as
to
> what parts I need, or I could ask here and make sure I get tried and true
> parts. (Remember the exploding MMC dabacle?)
>
> I remember I need diodes in wheatstone config, but I think I am forgetting
> something else.
>
> The NST is a 12kv/60ma nst. Has anyone any suggestions on parts to get and
> how many of these diodes to  put in series? I would guess I would want at
> least 15kv of diodes to make sure I have some buffer, but I don't know
about
> current. Maybe I need several in parallel to distribute the current so as
to
> reduce over-heating. I just don't know and I don't want to guess around
> because I think I would be doomed to guess poorly.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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