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Mains Powered!

Published in issue 290, July 2000

Many circuits can be powered directly from the mains with the aid of a series capacitor (C1). The disadvantage of this approach is that usually only one half cycle of the mains waveform can be used to produce a DC voltage. An obvious solution is to use a bridge rectifier to perform full-wave rectification, which increases the amount of current that can be supplied and allows the filter capacitor to be smaller.

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