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Making a Full Bridge Rectifier

ElectroBOOM · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Electronics & circuit design

What it is

ElectroBOOM's Mehdi Sadaghdar explains how a full bridge rectifier works, the building block of AC to DC converters, with his usual humor and a demonstration of the circuit.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as an enlightening and funny explanation of bridge rectifiers, often linked in power supply teardown threads.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “ElectroBOOM is a treasure.”

    ElectroBOOM explaining the full-bridge rectifier

    lazyweb, 2021-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Teardown of a PC Power Supply”

  2. “takes a more lighthearted view on electronics”

    Lighthearted take on full bridge rectifiers from ElectroBOOM

    jklp, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack”

  3. “The linked video of how bridge rectifier works is enlightening, funny and terrifying.”

    Funny, terrifying explanation of how a bridge rectifier works

    pivo, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “Macbook charger teardown: Complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: rectifier, electronics, diodes, ac to dc, electroboom

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