RE: What is the best way to hook up 2 rectifiers?

Posted by Mike C (A) on July 14, 2014 at 10:04:49

In Reply to: What is the best way to hook up 2 rectifiers? posted by DAK on July 12, 2014 at 16:17:39:

With the rectifier taps you have, I personally would use a pair of 6CJ3 damper diodes as rectifiers. You can run these with the heaters in parallel from the 6.3V 8A supply. These are indirectly heated single diodes so this heater connection will work (I use it myself).

Use a normal full wave circuit with one 6CJ3 in each side.

The 6CJ3 have an exceptionally low voltage drop at the currents typically used for valve circuits, so dynamic voltage drop with load will be very low which is generally a good thing. And they sound very good indeed! I almost always use them.
Also, they are *very* cheap! You may notice the kind of price that good 5ar4's fetch, like £300 or so for nice Philips/Mullard metal base .... which isn't why I use them but it helps.

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Topic - What is the best way to hook up 2 rectifiers? - DAK 16:17:39 07/12/14 (21)

RE: What is the best way to hook up 2 rectifiers? - Mike C 10:04:49 07/14/14 (0)

Have them get together for drinks maybe? : ) (nt) - vinnie2 02:54:22 07/14/14 (2)

Sign them both up for Diode Mingle? : ) (nt) - BofService 17:41:06 07/25/14 (0)

Match.com??? - Lew 12:08:19 07/15/14 (0)

RE: What is the best way to hook up 2 rectifiers? - Tre' 18:39:49 07/12/14 (0)

RE: What is the best way to hook up 2 rectifiers? - Tom Bavis 16:50:47 07/12/14 (15)

Tom, i'm not sure what you mean by that. nt - DAK 19:41:33 07/12/14 (14)

RE: Tom, i'm not sure what you mean by that. nt - David Smith 19:48:28 07/12/14 (13)

RE: Tom, i'm not sure what you mean by that. nt - DAK 21:16:57 07/12/14 (2)

RE: Tom, i'm not sure what you mean by that. nt - Tre' 22:33:22 07/12/14 (1)

RE: Tom, thank you very much. nice illustration too! nt. - DAK 11:51:47 07/13/14 (0)

+1 - drlowmu 20:26:47 07/12/14 (9)

Gusser says: - gusser 12:11:31 07/14/14 (0)

RE: +1 - Lew 08:32:22 07/13/14 (7)

RE: +1 - drlowmu 14:05:18 07/13/14 (5)

OK - Lew 08:14:12 07/14/14 (4)

Another power supply example : Skewed sonics - drlowmu 09:30:01 07/16/14 (3)

RE: Another power supply example : Skewed sonics - Swanson 04:23:25 07/18/14 (1)

RE: Another power supply example : Skewed sonics - drlowmu 06:48:16 07/18/14 (0)

This is not "fun" - op48no1 09:29:12 07/17/14 (0)

Really? :-) (nt) - Chip647 08:43:34 07/13/14 (0)

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