A rectifier is a circuit which converts AC to DC. It is made up of diodes. There are three types of rectifier circuit half wave, full wave and bridge rectifier. A rectifier is generally followed by a filter circuit to improve the quality of output. Rectifiers play an important part of the power supplies for electronic appliances operating at DC voltages. The half wave rectifier uses only one diode whereas the full wave and bridge uses two and four diodes respectively.
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