Keritech Tube / Solid State Hybrid Bridge Rectifier
Channel: Keri Szafir
Date: 2023-04-15

My little contribution to the guitar amp industry - I hope... Contrary to Randall Smith, I'm not patenting anything. Being an anarchist, I firmly believe in freedom of information, science and technology. Take that, Messy Booger!

While the hybrid bridge rectifier has been around, same for switchable full wave (not full bridge) rectifier like you see on the Messy Booger DR, my switchable hybrid bridge may be a new idea, with a cap bleeding circuit, and the circuit is also protected against excessive load on the rectifier tube.

0:00 Intro
1:25 Directly Heated Tubes and Large Filter Caps - WTF?
4:25 Indirectly Heated vs Directly Heated
5:30 Hybrid Rectifier (Nothing New)
7:50 Why Tube Rectifiers Anyway? Power Supply Impedance
10:15 Diode and Bleeding
15:00 Afterword

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