Usagi Electric | A Look at Mercury and Xenon Rectifiers @UsagiElectric | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Today we’re doing something a little different – we’re taking a look at some unique tubes I have in the collection. Notably, we’ll be looking at a Mercury Vapor Rectifier as well as a Xenon Gas Rectifier. These both operate in nearly the same way, but they both have very different visual results. In this short episode we take a look at just how a gas rectifier works, then power them to see the glow and even take a look on the scope at them doing some rectification!

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:13 What is a rectifier?
4:10 What is a mercury vapor rectifier?
5:53 Let’s put some power into these things
10:26 Can we see the rectification?
13:00 Outro
13:45 Bunny!