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Question
What is a rectifier?
Solution
An electronic circuit that rectifies AC voltage is called a rectifier. The conversion of AC voltage into DC voltage is called rectification.
There are two types of rectifier circuit:
- Half wave rectifier
- Full wave rectifier
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