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Reply to "Frank Ellison and the Mallory 1-B-8-C-1 rectifier as E-unit for DC operation"

If you look through enough back issues of OGR, you'll find detailed information on just about every aspect of the hobby.  Sure enough, on pages 37 and 38 of Run 142 from August 1995, there is an article, "AC or DC,  Which is better?" by Al Moore which covers this subject.  The article includes excellent, clear drawings by the author, one of which is the wiring diagram for using a full-wave bridge rectifier to reverse a universal  (AC) motor with DC current.   The author goes one step further and shows how to wire a Lionel AC transformer to provide reversible DC current.

This information is readily available through a digital subscription and the online archive "Magazine Digital Library." 

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