[GreenKeys] Inside a REC-30 rectifier

Doc Bill Terrell docterrell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 13:23:08 EDT 2018


I have three 8008 mercury rectifiers (and sockets) I will give to anyone 
who can USE them, for the postage.  The ones pictured are probably 866's 
or 816's.  Brings back memories from >50 years ago!  Loved the blinking 
blue light with CW.

Doc W8NTZ (68 years on the air)



On 9/11/2018 1:09 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> I have a rec-30 I was going to throw out because it's so heavy but 
> seeing some of these YouTube's of it running I've got to bring it home 
> now and clean it up.
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 4:31 PM <epvgk at limpoc.com 
> <mailto:epvgk at limpoc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 02:14:53AM -0400, Paul Birkel wrote:
>     > Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching
>     power supply
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     http://www.righto.com/2018/09/glowing-mercury-thyratrons-inside-1940s.html
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > -----
>
>
>     Here's the inside of mine in operation -
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxy2Ifo8Xx0
>     It's in the back of the base of my Model 19, though I don't power
>     it up very often.
>     Instead I have a solid-state 120VDC power supply taking its place,
>     so as not to put
>     undue strain on the ancient REC30.  I'm just typing all this text
>     because the mailing
>     list appears to reject my messages containing links, and I'm
>     hoping it accepts them
>     if they have lots of text too.
>
>     Sincerely,
>     eric
>
>
>     >
>
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