Re: Magnetic Rectifier??

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

I've just had a look at the ideas in the websites below:

On 22 Feb 2002, at 19:14, 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

Shows a complete misunderstanding of electrical theory. The batteries 
in the top diagram would flatten each other just for starters. The 
"I've not actually built this...." says it all.

> http://www.users.bigpond-dot-com/artoworld/magntrect.html

Ditto. The sense of the coils is not given which doesn't help but a 
quick thought ept shows that if the coils are series-aiding, there 
will be zero nett voltage across the DC terminals and if they are 
series-opposing, the alternator is likely to suffer badly.

> 
> 
> Would one of these work for rectifying the 500KV
> output of a tesla coil?

My opinion is that neither would work for rectifying anything let 
alone 500kV of high frequency current.

Regards,
Malcolm