Re: Magnetic Rectifier??

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

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

>         Looked at it in Ratzlaf and very disappointed in Mr.T for this
> nonsense.  Bet he never built one of these and demonstrated it!!!!

Really, more easy to talk than to demonstrate. But it's not nonsense.
Note that Tesla proposed to split the AC current in two pathes, each
with a saturable inductor oppositely biased in the way. The loads
were inserted in the two pathes, in series with the saturable 
inductors. This would really add some DC current to the current in
the loads. What causes some confusion, and may be one of the causes
of the total confusion on those sites mentioned in the original
post, is that no resistances are shown in the drawing, and the
bias batteries for the inductors can be erroneously taken by batteries
being charged by the partially rectified currents.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz