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Selenium RECTIFIED
Posted: 02 Oct 2021 10:35 AM PDT
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2021/10/selenium-rectifiers-rectified.html
Selenium rectifiers. The name kind of sounds like Dilithium crystals,
possibly related to flux capacitors. Anyway, there were two of them in the Globe Electronics V-10 VFO Deluxe that I recently bought. Obviously they
had to go, so I took them out yesterday, replacing them with a 1N5408
silicon rectifier. The new diode had a significantly lower voltage drop
than the selenium rectifiers -- this
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