Magnetic Rectifier??

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Original poster: "Vivek Babtiwale by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dr_vek-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Have any of you ever built a magnetic rectifier?

http://geoffegel.tripod-dot-com/rect.htm
http://www.users.bigpond-dot-com/artoworld/magntrect.html


Would one of these work for rectifying the 500KV
output of a tesla coil?






--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> I just read a comment from Paul Nicholson about the
> self resonant frequency 
> of a solenoid secondary being higher than the 1/4
> wave frequency for the same 
> length of wire in free space.  I would have guessed
> it would have been lower 
> due to the added self capacitance of the solenoid
> secondary.  I just did some 
> calcs on my 6.0" secondary.  The self resonant
> frequency is 263 khz.  The 
> quarter wave frequency calculated for a 1604 foot
> long wire is 146 khz.  So 
> why does this come out backwards from what I
> expected?
> 
> Ed Sonderman
> 
> 
> 


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