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From: dclaar@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Doug Claar)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Need info on a diode rectifier
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Date: 10 Jan 91 20:29:32 GMT
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/ hpcuhc:sci.electronics / ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) / 12:43 pm  Jan  8, 1991 /

a) 1____|\|____2    
   |    |/|    |   
  ---         --- 
   ^           ^ 
  /_\         /_\   
   |           |   
   3____|\|____4  
        |/|      

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Now would you like to know where the wires go?

   1 & 4 = AC
   2     = +
   3     = -
Theory: A diode passes postive voltage thru the arrow, negative
        into the arrow. (Ok, it's not real precise, but...)
        So when 1 is positive, it goes to 2, but can't get to 3.
	When it is negative, it goes to 3, but can't get to 2.
	The same is true for 4: Positve goes to 2, negative to 3.
I'm sure that someone will say it much more eloquently, but that's
the terms in which my EE-wannabe CS mind remembers it.

Doug Claar
HP Computer Systems Division
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