They’ve been a mainstay of Sci-Fi props for years but you’ll be hard pressed to find someone on the street that can tell you what they actually do. They’re Mercury Arc Rectifiers and our friends at ...

IN the Brown Boveri Review for October a very impressive list is given of the mercury arc rectifiers for power transmission which the firm has shipped to overseas countries. We are glad therefore to ...

DURING recent years there has been an increasing demand for machines and devices which will convert alternating currents into direct currents. Bulk supplies are usually given by alternating currents, ...

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I’m going to break from the typical Hackaday article format for a moment. I’m smitten, captivated by this wondrous new discovery. Forgive my ignorance for having never seen one of these before, I didn ...

A half-wave mercury vapor rectifier (also called a high vacuum diode). Four-pin base with metal shell, ceramic insulator. Top contact. Mercury specks inside unit. Printed on base: "JAN-CAGC-872A / ...