Talk:Mechanical rectifier

Latest comment: 13 years ago by Tabby

Since these produce much lower voltage drop than solid state or valve devices, are they not attractive for high current high power applications today? Tabby (talk) 11:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

I think the problem is that sparking at the switches causes radio and TV interference. Biscuittin (talk) 20:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

That seems fairly trivial to solve compared to the power loss of silicon diodes at thousands of amps (for electrolysis). Tabby (talk) 03:05, 8 May 2011 (UTC)Reply