selenium rectifier
by Bob Latino Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:46 pm. The best thing to do is to remove the selenium rectifier and replace it with a UF007 diode. What you do is take out the selenium rectifier and replace it with a two lug terminal strip. Run the RED/BLACK wire to one lug on the terminal strip. Run the wire from lug 4 of the 7 lug terminal strip to the OTHER ...
The Complete Guide to the Different Types of Rectifiers
Selenium rectifier. A selenium rectifier is a type of uncontrolled rectifier that uses a layer of selenium on a metallic backing as the rectifying element. Selenium rectifiers were commonly used in the early days of electronic power supplies, but have been largely replaced by more efficient and reliable rectifier technologies. Vacuum tube rectifier
Selenium rectifier
The selenium rectifier but was now especially for low-voltage a much more effective rectifier available, as it was the used until around 1930 cuprous oxide rectifier. Cuprous oxide rectifier, however, were still manufactured as a measuring rectifier due to their low forward voltage up to about 1950. Construction
How do you test a Selenium Rectifier?
Actually, they ARE heat sinks. Selenium rectifiers were much less efficient than silicon, or even germanuim rectifiers, with a forward voltage drop of about 1V per cell (plate). That means that if your rectifier has 16 cells, then the rectifier, as a whole, will have AT LEAST 16 volts of forward voltage drop.
Selenium Rectifiers
Selenium Rectifiers. Below you can see a miscellany of seven types of rectifier, half-wave, full wave and bridge. In the centre are five RM4; below these are three RM3 and two RM1A half wave rectifiers. Along the top is a small bridge rectifier, a 280/LU1093 or AP53170 together with a larger bridge, the "5307".
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You're unlikely to find specs on the selenium rectifier. However, you can probably get a pretty good idea from context. You must know something about the device this is in. Chances are, a 1N4004 can be used as a replacement, although you might have to put a resistor in series. The old selenium rectifiers had significant resistance, and ...
Replacement of selenium rectifier in ST-70
Re: Replacement of selenium rectifier in ST-70. by rossini Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:21 am. Peter W. wrote: Germanium would not be your first choice. Finding such a diode that would be rugged enough is one thing - and the basic characteristics of such a diode in that use would be another. I use a 1N4007 silicon diode in those applications.
SELENIUM RECTIFIER
To accommodate selenium rectifier customers, CEHCO accepts quantity orders at the quantity price and delivers the needed rectifiers on a rush basis, while the balance of the order is shipped by a low-cost carrier. To …
Dynaco PAS 3 selenium rectifier replacement. | diyAudio
After the wiring is corrected you can try measuring the output DC voltages. The filaments of the tubes on each board are in series, so if the tubes are removed, you will have to measure between the ends of each twisted pair where they are. soldered to the board. The DC voltage between the ends should be around 24VDC.
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Jul 31, 2016. #1. I have noticed in several posts, references to selenium rectifiers in these vintage generators. I think it prudent to inform people that these can be extremely dangerous. When these rectifiers fail they often produce poisonous gases, breathing these gases will kill you. When working on these gen sets we need to be careful.
Replacing selenium rectifier with diode
As Mr. Roth said, the selenium rectifier appears to be used to create DC voltage for the tube filaments. If you look at the schematic on page 20, you see that the rectifier looks like two diodes drawn together with a common cathode. And then a series resistor (R60). So you can replace the rectifier with two diodes with the anode end …
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Metal rectifier
A metal rectifier is an early type of semiconductor rectifier in which the semiconductor is copper oxide or selenium. They were used to convert alternating current to direct current. They were often used in devices such as radios and battery chargers. Westinghouse Electric was a major manufacturer of these rectifiers since the late 1920s.
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This device probably used a selenium rectifier because silicon rectifiers did not exist at the time it was constructed, or were not large enough to use in this application. If a similar device were to be built today, it would use a silicon diode -- there is no advantage to the use of a selenium rectifier. Selenium is rather toxic.
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Addicted Member. Mar 29, 2011. #6. There's a 15 ohm bar resistor going to the chassis. Some change that to a 25 ohmer. When you undo the selenium rectifier, look for the two AC wires to distinguish them from the DC wires. Might have a waveform ~ <--- like that. Check on the bridge you bought too. M.
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Surprisingly, it actually worked as-is, but there was major trouble. One problem area was that the 7591's ran HOT. I mean, so hot, I could turn the heat in the lab off (well, not really, but you get the idea). Not good. Some of this problem was the fault of the selenium rectifier (of which I had never seen the little Siemens flat-pack before.
SELENIUM RECTIFIER, SINGLE PHASE
10 PLATES, 1 1/2" X 1 1/2", P/N C372D5EB1. Selenium rectifier stacks are made up of selenium cells, which are mounted together and circuited as required for each application. They are available in configurations to suit …
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Armed with a 1n4004 and a suitable high voltage electrolytic capacitor, I proceeded to replace both the selenium rectifier and the filter cap that followed it (on principle — the existing cap was cosmetically in OK condition, but old electrolytics often don't work well, and sometimes fail catastrophically) to bring the 88 V B+ line and -40 V bias voltage back into …
Rectifiers: Definition, Working, Types, Circuits & Applications
A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC). The process of converting AC to DC is called rectification. In this article, we explore the workings of rectifiers, including types such as half-wave, full-wave, bridge rectifiers, and special rectifiers like Mercury Arc and Selenium Rectifiers.
REPLACEMENT SELENIUM RECTIFIERS
You can replace a selenium bridge rectifier with a modern silicon bridge rectifier that consists of four diodes in a bridge configuration. Voltage Rating: Ensure that the replacement diodes have a sufficient voltage rating to handle the maximum voltage encountered in the application. It's a good practice to provide some margin to ensure ...
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Selenium rectifiers arrived in the 1930s and were largely replaced by silicon technology by the late 60s to early 70s. They have greater resistance to current flow than silicon rectifiers do and about 1 V of generated voltage is lost in them. They not only wear out with use (higher resistance) but they have a shelf life of a few decades.
Selenium Rectifiers
An example of a selenium rectifier stack number is shown at the bottom of the chart. Decoded, this number means that the stack has the following characteristics: The assembly is forced-air cooled (F prefix), the cells are 5 by 6 inches (code S), they have a 33 volt rating, they are Hi-Density type, they are circuited as a single-phase bridge (code B), and …
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If the original selenium rectifier is still working do some voltage measurements to see what the output voltage is before it gets to the filament dropping resistor, and after it. Regards Arran Thanks Arran. I was aware that the filament voltages are 1.4 and 2.8 volts. I referenced them that way to indicate that the set only has 4 tubes …
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Subscriber. Mar 2, 2015. #1. Several months ago I bought a rough Dynaco ST70 off the bay. It appears someone did some previous "upgrades" with caps and SR. Yesterday I started my restoration (installing a new driver board, stereo/mono switch, rerun of solder joints etc.) and came across an odd (to me) thing in that the Selenium Rectifier had ...
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___ 12 The selenium rectifier is replaced with bridge rectifier ___ 13 Replaced power filter caps ___ 14 Replaced AGC time constant caps ___ 15 Langford AGC diode modifications ___ 16 Other SSB modifications ___ 17 A Line filter …
Selenium Rectifier
Typical silicon diode for up to 1000v is 0.6 volts. Each slice of selenium is good for about 20 volts reverse and loses about 1 volt forward. To get high voltages they simply stack up the slices, which of course stacks up the forward voltage loss. Figure 200 volts inverse means about 10 volts forward loss.