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  • Thumbnail for Rectifier
    "straightens" the direction of current. Physically, rectifiers take a number of forms, including vacuum tube diodes, wet chemical cells, mercury-arc valves...
    64 KB (8,984 words) - 05:17, 1 September 2024
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    A mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (UK) mercury-arc rectifier is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high-voltage or high-current...
    26 KB (3,437 words) - 11:50, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fender Bassman
    Bassman amplifiers had two 6SC7 or 6SL7GT pre-amp tubes, two 5881 power tubes and a single 5U4G rectifier tube. It was designed to generate 26 watts at an 8-ohm...
    15 KB (1,996 words) - 21:37, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of vacuum tubes
    Half-wave rectifier, 35V/150mA series heater; UY1N with miniature 7-pin base First letter: R – Rectifier or RF tube U – Gas-filled power rectifier Z – Modulator...
    329 KB (40,580 words) - 17:54, 4 August 2024
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    amplifier tube, although some four-tube designs with a selenium rectifier in place of the rectifier tube avoided this problem. The six-tube versions added...
    21 KB (2,997 words) - 22:49, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gas-filled tube
    tubes it is used in combination with mercury. It was also used in early rectifier tubes; first thyratrons were derived from such argon-filled tubes....
    27 KB (3,400 words) - 13:22, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metal rectifier
    A metal rectifier is an early type of semiconductor rectifier in which the semiconductor is copper oxide, germanium or selenium. They were used in power...
    6 KB (737 words) - 02:53, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silicon controlled rectifier
    controlled rectifier or semiconductor controlled rectifier is a four-layer solid-state current-controlling device. The name "silicon controlled rectifier" is...
    13 KB (1,598 words) - 13:52, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Selenium rectifier
    voltage. Vacuum-tube rectifiers had efficiencies of only 60% compared to the 85% of selenium rectifiers, partially because vacuum-tube rectifiers required heating...
    9 KB (1,115 words) - 07:56, 13 June 2024
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    866A (category Vacuum tubes)
    half-wave rectifier intended for high-voltage applications. The voltage drop is approximately 15 volts up to 150 Hz. To avoid unwanted shorts the tube must...
    2 KB (186 words) - 17:45, 28 December 2023
  • Double diode triode (category Vacuum tubes)
    other as a rectifier for automatic gain control, in one envelope. In practice the two diodes usually share a common cathode. Multiple tube sections in...
    4 KB (677 words) - 20:39, 7 March 2020
  • (plug-in transformers), and battery chargers. With the invention of the rectifier tube, which made it practical to power radios by electrical outlets, in 1928...
    35 KB (3,890 words) - 05:21, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tube sound
    instrument tube amplifier designs use a vacuum tube rectifier instead of silicon diodes, and some designs offer the choice of both rectifiers via a switch...
    44 KB (5,688 words) - 08:44, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electronic component
    vacuum (see Vacuum tube). Diode or rectifier tube Amplification Triode Tetrode Pentode Hexode Pentagrid (Heptode) Octode Traveling-wave tube Klystron Oscillation...
    26 KB (2,806 words) - 21:23, 27 August 2024
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    Thyratron (redirect from 885 tube)
    gas-filled tube used as a high-power electrical switch and controlled rectifier. Thyratrons can handle much greater currents than similar hard-vacuum tubes. Electron...
    12 KB (1,479 words) - 21:05, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vienna rectifier
    The Vienna Rectifier is a pulse-width modulation rectifier, invented in 1993 by Johann W. Kolar at TU Wien, a public research university in Vienna, Austria...
    9 KB (1,088 words) - 17:19, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum tube
    inside the tube allows gas to evolve from the tube materials, and may deposit conductive material on internal insulating spacers. Tube rectifiers have limited...
    120 KB (15,394 words) - 08:07, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fender Deluxe Reverb
    22-watt tube amplifier (at 8 ohms), powered by a pair ("duet") of 7408/6V6GT power tubes, one GZ34/5AR4 rectifier tube, four 7025/12AX7 tubes for preamplification...
    5 KB (589 words) - 03:50, 7 July 2024
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    cathode ray tube, since its thick glass envelope is impregnated with several pounds of lead for shielding, than on high voltage (HV) rectifier and voltage...
    21 KB (2,753 words) - 18:21, 27 August 2024
  • supply, either with a simple half wave rectifier or with a voltage doubler circuit. In very early vacuum tube television sets, the EHT was derived directly...
    3 KB (471 words) - 15:30, 26 March 2024
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