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Article #5476Re: Homemade tubes, semiconductors, etc...
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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 06:17
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 06:17
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In article <1814@mountn.dec.com> baker@wbc.dec.com writes:
> A LOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGGG time ago, there was an article in
> Popular Electronics on making wet-cell diodes using a vat
> of sodium borate and water with two electrodes in it, one
> copper and the other aluminum. The idea was to connect a
I've heard these were quite common in the early days of radio.
They were often called 'slop jar' rectifiers. The breakdown voltage
is fairly low, so you had to use a lot of jars in series for high
voltage.
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