A Look at Mercury and Xenon Rectifiers

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! If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/usagielectric Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com Come join us on Discord and Twitter! Discord: https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD Twitter: https://twitter.com/UsagiElectric Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847 Thanks for watching! 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!