Full Wave
Three phase rectifiers are most commonly used for big businesses, manufacturing, and distribution of alternating electrical currents. In the industrial manufacturing, power is suppled from motors that drive process equipment. Examples of these machines are welding applications, plasma cutting or smelting processes.
A full wave rectifier is made of two half wave rectifiers. They can also be called six wave half wave rectifiers. Each diode will only produce 1/6th of the power needed. The rectifier is composed of two diodes with a center tap on the transformer. A center tap is a point halfway along the winding of a transformer or inductor. They are used on coupling of signals and can be closer to one end or another. The center tap allows the circuit to be completed because the current can’t flow through another diode. A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy between two or more circuits. The voltage of an alternating current can be positive or negative. The current flows through one of the diodes at a time. The result is a pulsating current with double the frequency. Full wave rectifiers are stronger than half wave rectifiers.
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