Re: DC? was: mechanical bridge rectifier

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>


Hm, this makes me wonder.. has anyone tryed using brushs that contact in a 
rotary spark gap? mabey stick the whole thing in oil so the arc dosent form 
till they nearly touch and to disipate the heat better..

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: DC? was: mechanical bridge rectifier
>Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:38:37 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz 
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
> >
> > It did not sound like a "it cannot be done" as much as people complaining
> > about sticking contacts on a different type of mechanical rectifier. The
> > magnet based vibrating reed rectifiers are not the same as the rotary ones.
> > It still makes sense both make lots of inteference and have times of no
> > power output while switching between the different polarities of the AC
> > input.
> >
> > KEN
>
>         Speaking of vibrating-reed rectifiers, I just realized that all 
> of the
>"synchronous vibrators" used to provide B+ in car radios fell into that
>category.  Set their own timing, of course.
>
>         The rotary type can be made with brushes as well as spark gaps, and
>that's in effect how the commutator in a DC generator works.
>
>Ed