> You can build your rectifier assembly for a fraction of what others are
> charging.
> Get a piece of flat plastic (nylon, delrin, HDPE or anything drillable) and
> drill a series of holes spaced a bit farther than the length of a 6A10
> diode. Using a nut and bolt, install a ground lug in each hole and solder
> the 6A10s from lug to lug (see note below). Mount the plastic to your
> chassis using insulating standoffs. Simple as can be.
> eBay is a good source of small plastic pieces, or the plastic cutting boards
> (HDPE) sold at any variety store are good too.
> A couple of cautions:
> 1. Some plastics will melt at soldering temperature, so you may want to do
> the soldering before fastening the ground lugs down.
> 2. If you buy the 6A10s all together so they come from the same
> manufacturing batch, you won't need equalizing resistors. They will be
> closely matched enough.
> You can use this same concept for mounting your filter capacitors.
> Spend the money you saved on antennas. That will help your signal far more
> than some fancy rectifier assembly. :-)
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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05/07/2013 21:56
I quite like turret tags, or turret posts, whatever they are called.
Considered old fashioned nowadays, but easy to insert and place and
they allow air flow under and around the rectifiers. I even made a
little steel jig to enable accurate drilling when I make another.
http://www.chriswilson.tv/diodes.jpg
Has anyone seen inside a rectifier "stick"? Are they just normal
rectifier diodes soldered together then epoxy encapsulated?
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Best Regards,
Chris Wilson.
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