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PN Junction Diode – Formation, Symbol, Biasing, V-I Characteristics, Application.Semiconductor Material – Property, Types, Examples, Application.For this reason, full-wave bridge rectifiers have practical applications much more than center-tapped full-wave rectifiers. So, the size of the circuit will be reduced, as well as its cost also reduced. The main advantage of the Bridge Rectifier is that the expensive center-tapped transformer is not used in this design, a normal transformer is used in place of a center-tapped transformer. Although only one diode verses two conducting.This Rectifier circuit produces the same output waveform as the full-wave rectifier circuit. A full-wave center-tapped rectifier is only using one half a secondary winding at a time. A full-wave bridge is the most efficient utilization of a transformer. Note also the LM317HV gives much less output current at high vin-vout above around 20V. With a 50VA part, I find they have about 15% regulation, so at no load expect the raw DC to jump up that much, and with high line it can be too much for some voltage regulator IC's. You must take in account high and low mains as it's not perfect 115VAC all the time. This makes it not worth trying to calculate beyond the "1,000uF/amp" guideline. The math behind it (ripple voltage) is complicated and a theoretical answer- because you don't have an ideal, perfect transformer or diodes. The minimum voltage that the filter capacitor dips down to between cycles, kinda important. Quote from: floobydust on July 01, 2020, 07:36:33 pm That calculator is useless, it doesn't work with ripple voltage. For the capacitance given, I'm just relying on what the form suggested the answer was. Is there something I'm missing / doing wrong, or the 1000uF per amp is just a wide rule of thumb? Also, I'm unclear how it calculates the ripple voltage to make this calculation.
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Obviously, I could be using this incorrectly, but it is showing approximately 30% of what you suggested. I'm unclear how it determined the ripple voltage. It calculated the required capacitance as 276.67uF.
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I had been googling to figure out how to calculate how large of a capacitor would be required and I read about the negatives of having a cap that is too large. The second question is: Is there away to even somewhat efficiently lower the DC voltage to a usable state before it reaches the voltage regulator of the transformer it putting out a higher voltage like this one? Thanks, Dave
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I want this so in case I decided to buy another transformer, I can get one that I will have a good idea of what the full rectified output voltage will be so I can properly plan the circuit components. I Googled around, and I don't see a clean or consistent description on how to calculate what a full wave rectified voltage will be from a secondary winding. That suggest my full wave rectified voltage will be closer to 70v than below 60v. I don't have a cap right now that is capable of high enough voltage to fully test the rectified voltage, but I tested at 20v AC in and I got 26.8v DC out which is over 20% increase in voltage. (maybe a switching with the second one) I figured a LM317-HV regulator would work since it's rated at up to 60v, but I now believe I was wrong. I thought as a learning experience, I would try to build a linear PSU out of one of them. A while back I bought two brand new transformers off of someone that accept 115v/230v dual primary and a center tapped secondary winding rated at 115v 56VA or obviously half that using the center tap.