From the wall socket, a voltage source of 240V AC is readily available. However,
many appliances rely on DC current to work: a bridge rectifier circuit
converts this less-than-useful AC voltage into a DC voltage.
Our aim was to design and implement a bridge rectifier that could deliver
16V DC voltage with 5% variation. <blah> diodes were arranged into a
bridge configuration, filter capacitors and a voltage regulator (type) were
also added to smoothen the output DC. ETCETCETC
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