Re: Selenium Rectifiers

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Mark Fraser <mfraser@h...> wrote:

> My all-time favorite of the "poorly researched" TV episodes was the
> Mission Impossible crisis in which the techie guy was searching for
> the fault in a TV monitor that died just when it was needed most for
> some surveillance activity. At the last moment, he announced "I

found

> it - it was a burned out Selenium rectifier!".
>
> Anyone who has been in the same room as a TV whose S.R. has burned
> out would be able to recognize the telltale odor...... /mark

I invented the first LED in 1964 when a Selenium rectifier I hooked
up wrong on a 350V supply glowed and burned up. The light didn't
last very long though and the current required was a whole lot! Come
to think of it it was more like a dim flash bulb than a light....