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Recycle Electronic Components | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial)

Re: Recycle Electronic Components (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by richhagen (richhagen (a t) Juno.com) on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 12:34:15 PM MST
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Sometimes old battery chargers, and other transformer based power supplies in things like clock radios and tv's have blocking diodes or bridge rectifiers (4 diodes in a package to convert AC to DC) which might be of use to you. Also switching power supplies such as old computer power supplies often have rectifiers. Rich
'A Joule saved is a Joule made'

Re: Recycle Electronic Components (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by micro mechanix (feland2001@hotmail.com) on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 05:04:14 PM MST
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anouther source for bridge rectifiers is old electric lawn mowers.

They usually have a 1200watt rectifier used to change the ac house current to DC for the motor. I know I had to replace it at 40 bucks it was half the cost of the mower.

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Re: Recycle Electronic Components (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by Norm (peppysue@suite224.net) on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 09:35:23 PM MST
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....and the motor was about 12 volts?...for $40
could have bought a 75 amp/hr deep cycle 12v batt.
and had a cordless mower?
( :>) Norm
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Re: Recycle Electronic Components (3.00 / 0) (#10)
by zap (bell47g5a at comcast dot net) on Mon Sep 29th, 2008 at 02:56:08 PM MST
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Norm

On all the ones I've seen the motor is hooked up directly to the bridge. For all intents and purposes, it's a 110vdc motor and wouldn't cut much grass running at 12vdc since it would be running too slow.

zap
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