22-09-2013, 07:44 PM
That looks pretty much like the standard beast for the era, and is similar to several others. Geany has a Thread currently running about a different one and there've been others. I've got several myself, both Valve and Solid State.
However, despite spending some 45 years in the Electronics Industry I would guess that the number of times I used one in anger could be counted on the fingers of one hand. The usual methodology for a suspect Component was simply to change it. The only time I used a Bridge was to select Capacitors for an application which required a non-standard value, or to check/select an Inductance.
So, what were they used for? They can't have been cheap, although possibly the areas I worked in were 'peculiar'.
Alan
However, despite spending some 45 years in the Electronics Industry I would guess that the number of times I used one in anger could be counted on the fingers of one hand. The usual methodology for a suspect Component was simply to change it. The only time I used a Bridge was to select Capacitors for an application which required a non-standard value, or to check/select an Inductance.
So, what were they used for? They can't have been cheap, although possibly the areas I worked in were 'peculiar'.
Alan
