>With all this talk about the pros and cons of rectifiers what do the
>professional broacast transmitters use?. What about John Lyles K5PRO he
>must have some interesting high voltage sticks laying around for some of
>his projects. Likewise the Los Alamos labs certainly would have some huge
>rectifier sticks for there purposes. Anyway i have the Voltage
>Multipliers Inc catalogue here, and they do the same as Rich suggest
>strings of series diodes without any resistors or Caps, they do seem to
>pot them however. They sell these sticks up to 20 KV 6 amps but want silly
>prices for stringing diodes together.
>
To do it right, one needs to sort diodes according to PIV and C, so that
similar diodes can be used in each series string. This takes about 30
seconds per diode, so the additional labor cost has to be figured in --
at the usual 1000% mark-up, of course!. .
- cheers, Craig
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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