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...p|12}} Compared to the rotary converter, the mercury arc and semiconductor rectifiers did not need daily maintenance, manual synchronizing for parallel operation ...rters. Many DC customers converted to AC power, and on-site solid-state DC rectifiers were used to power the remaining DC equipment from the AC supply. ...

.... These solid state rectifiers have almost completely replaced mercury-arc rectifiers thanks to their higher reliability, lower cost and maintenance and lower en ...gh-maintenance [[rotary converter]]s or motor–generator sets. Mercury-arc rectifiers or "converters" were used for charging storage batteries, [[Arc lamp|arc li ...

...n M.|date=December 2017|title=Numerical Average-Value Modeling of Rotating Rectifiers in Brushless Excitation Systems|journal=IEEE Transactions on Energy Convers ...odes Demonstration and Redundant Postfault Operation of Rotating Thyristor Rectifiers on Brushless Dual-Star Exciters|journal=IEEE Transactions on Industrial Ele ...

...tification'', since it "straightens" the direction of current. Physically, rectifiers take a number of forms, including [[Vacuum tube#Diodes|vacuum tube diodes]] ...er than to generate direct current for use as a source of power. As noted, rectifiers can serve as [[detector (radio)|detectors]] of [[radio]] signals. In gas he ...

==Voltage doubling rectifiers== ...tage doubler appears in Fig. 4 on p. 412. He used chemical (electrolytic) rectifiers, which are denoted "Z" (''Zellen'', cells).</ref>) to provide the 200–300&n ...

...the pulsed current consumption of non-linear devices like capacitor-input rectifiers. ...e rectification. Rectification can be controlled (uses Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs)) or uncontrolled (uses diodes). There is in addition, [[active rect ...

...rmionic diodes|thermionic diode]], a [[Rectifier#Selenium and copper oxide rectifiers|copper-oxide]]/[[selenium rectifier]], or by an additional set of mechanica ...

...o significant harmonics generated back onto the line as there are with the rectifiers found in most [[Variable-frequency drive|VFDs]]. The controlled rectifier ...

...ors with [[Commutator (electric)|commutator]]s. As [[diode|silicon-diode]] rectifiers became widely available and affordable, the [[alternator]] gradually replac ...

...nerators, which are now generally obsolete in favour of AC generators with rectifiers, the need for commutation meant that brushgear and commutators could still ...

...t gas, allowing cold start of the tubes. High-voltage (kilovolts and more) rectifiers use pure mercury vapor at low pressure, requiring maintenance of maximum te Large rectifiers use saturated mercury vapor with a small amount of an inert gas. The inert ...

...so on. The associated rectifier circuits are 12-pulse rectifiers, 18-pulse rectifiers, and so on... ...

...ly to the consuming equipment and floats continuously on the output of the rectifiers that normally supply DC rectified from utility power. When utility power f ...

...commutator]]s. With the availability of affordable [[diode|silicon-diode]] rectifiers, alternators were used instead.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} The traction alternator usually incorporates integral silicon diode rectifiers to provide the traction motors with up to 1,200 volts DC.{{citation needed| ...

The peak-to-peak value is used, for example, when choosing rectifiers for power supplies, or when estimating the maximum voltage that insulation ...

...as replaced in the early 20th century by [[Mercury-arc valve|mercury-vapor rectifiers]], which were smaller, did not produce vibration and noise, and required le ...

Examples of non-linear loads on a power system are rectifiers (such as used in a power supply), and arc discharge devices such as [[fluor ...nce in practical power systems that contain [[non-linear]] loads such as [[rectifiers]], some forms of electric lighting, [[electric arc furnace]]s, welding equi ...

...1957 [[Siemens]] demonstrated the first solid-state rectifier (solid-state rectifiers are now the standard for HVDC systems) however it was not until the early 1 ...

...hottky barrier diode.<ref name="HC">H. C. Torrey, C. A. Whitmer, ''Crystal Rectifiers'', New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948</ref> The right-hand end of the slotted line ...