[Boatanchors] Copper oxide rectifiers

[Brian Clarke]

I suspect you mean selenium rectifiers. There is no toxicology
associated with copper oxide, as far as I can discover. I may not have
searched far enough?

73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
 
Brian Clarke
BE, MBA, PhD, CPEng, FIEAust
MD, Clarke & Associates P/L

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:37:23 -0400 (EDT), Roger said:

 Wayne,

 They may be usable still as your other posts replied.

 If your restoration needs to look exact as original built, you have
little choice.
 If you just need function, then a modern diode bridge is in order.
 Copper oxide was popular between tube diodes and better silicon
diodes.
 But the magic smoke in copper oxide diodes is more toxic than the
magic smoke in silicon 
 or germanium diodes. Thus copper oxide has fallen out of favor with
 some people.

 Roger AI4NI

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