Timeline for Why more voltage after full rectification
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| Jun 26, 2021 at 9:00 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 6:01 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Did you remember to try your meter in both AC and DC? It is likely this power has both an AC and a DC component. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 5:15 | history | edited | sangpo Sangpo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 13, 2020 at 12:36 | comment | added | user16324 | It is dangerous to touch 204V DC. | |
| May 13, 2020 at 12:04 | comment | added | Warren Hill | A picture is worth a thousand words. Can you show us your circuit? There is a great tool on this site to draw them. | |
| S May 13, 2020 at 6:42 | history | suggested | ElectronSurf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 13, 2020 at 0:32 | comment | added | ks0ze | As pointed out in the answer below, the problem is that your capacitor is on the wrong side of the rectifier. Therefore, on every negative cycle, it discharges and if you are measuring with a multimeter you will get an averaging effect that decreases the displayed voltage. | |
| May 13, 2020 at 0:08 | answer | added | varun | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 12, 2020 at 23:53 | history | asked | sangpo Sangpo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |