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Originally Posted by tricolor
This supply is regulated (or translated into DC) through a sort of "bridge of Diodes" integrated nowadays in the Alternator itself. And this supplied current is neat and clean under 13.2V but rough and full of ripples above.
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The "Bridge of diodes" is a full-wave bridge rectifier (4 diodes), which turns the AC coming from the alternator into pulsing DC. So think of a sine wave... to picture what the output waveform is, just take the negative alternation of the sine wave, and flip it over the 0-volt line (like a mirror image). What you end up is is a pulsing DC waveform that looks like a bunch of upside-down "U"s. Think of the following upside down: UUUUUUUUUUU That's what the resulting DC waveform looks like.
The only way to clean this up is a 1:1 transformer... like I said earlier.
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