How to build a plating power source?

How would I go about building 110v./300amp./single phase rectifier for a chrome plating shop?

Jim Cantrell
- Nancy, Kentucky, USA
2003

Wouldn't it be much easier, as well as less expensive, to buy a good used one? There are plenty of used rectifiers out there.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
Ted is available for instant help
or longer-term assistance.
2003

Chrome plating hates ripple! You need to have a proper designed choke for a given power setting and a lot of capacitors and ? for a single phase unit. Go the 3 phase route and save a lot of grief.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
2003

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