Re: Magnetic Rectifier??

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Vivek Babtiwale by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dr_vek-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> 
> Have any of you ever built a magnetic rectifier?
> 
> http://geoffegel.tripod-dot-com/rect.htm
> http://www.users.bigpond-dot-com/artoworld/magntrect.html
> 
> Would one of these work for rectifying the 500KV
> output of a tesla coil?

Answer: Many.  But --- mag amps may use rectifiers, but they don't
rectify, and even if they did I can't imagine how anyone could insulate
one for 500 kV.

Ed