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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Need info on a diode rectifier
Message-ID: <17660142@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 20:02:51 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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a)  ____|\|____       
   |    |/|    |   
  ---         --- 
   ^           ^      
  /_\         /_\ 
   |           |       
   |____|\|____|   
        |/|      


This one.  AC in is across the upper left and lower right nodes; DC+ out
is the upper right, and DC- is the lower left.  Being the sort of person I
am (a part-time instructor of such things as DC fundamentals), with this
clue, I'll leave it to you to figure out why this is so.


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