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Tube-type bridge rectifier
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: Tube-type bridge rectifier
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 01:48:22 -0600
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From: Jim Lux [SMTP:jimlux@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 9:24 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Tube-type bridge rectifier
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> From: Bill the arcstarter [SMTP:arcstarter@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 1998 2:24 PM
> To: tesla@pupman.com
> Subject: Tube-type bridge rectifier
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> Coilers,
> I've been contemplating constructing a HV bridge rectifier out of
> tubes, to power (among other things) my coil.
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> I noticed Gary Weaver has used the 1B3GT tube, which looks like 12KV at
> 2.0 ma average current.
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> Can anyone suggest a rectifier tube capable of perhaps 100-200 ma of
> plate current at about 15KV or so? I'd eventually like to move this
> onto my pig...
Others may be able to suggest better tubes more available surplus, but my
HV DC power supply has a half dozen 8020 vacuum rectifiers in it: 40 kV at
150 mA. They run about $100 new.
Get a copy of QST and and start calling the places that sell vacuum tubes.