[Boatanchors] copper cap rectifiers

Wed, 14 May 2003 08:42:03 -0500

Gotta tell my svensk xyl (a Jacobsen) that one!  Hi hi.

Tom "assembled in U.S.A from Norwegian parts" NØJMY.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] copper cap rectifiers

> In a message dated 5/14/03 8:00:25 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > So what the heck is a "copper cap rectifier"?  Are we
> >  blathering about copper oxide rectifiers, or what?
>
> I was wondering about that myself. I thought maybe he was talking about
the
> "top hat" style that was once common.
>
> Anyone ever heard of a Sweedish Roller rectifier? That's the one where the
> incoming sine wave is passed through two rollers to flatten it out and
make
> it DC. Any bumps that are left are pounded with a mallet. Doesn't need a
> filter capacitor.
>
> Larson E. Rapp
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