Full wave Bridge rectifier

full-wave rectifier design exists and is Built around a four-diode bridge configuration. It is known as a Full-Wave Bridge Rectifier or simply Bridge Rectifier. The advantage of this type of design over the center-tapped version is that it does not require a special center-tapped transformer which drastically reduces its size and cost. this design uses entire secondary voltage as the input to the rectifier. Given the same transformer, we get twice as much peak voltage and twice as much dc voltage with a bridge rectifier as with a center-tapped full-wave rectifier. That is why bridge rectifiers are used much more than full-wave rectifiers. To rectify both half cycles of a sine wave, the full-wave rectifier uses two diodes, one for each half of the cycle. The full-wave rectifier is like two back-to-back half-wave rectifiers. OutPut Frequency:-The full-wave rectifier inverts each negative half cycle, doubling the number of positive half cycles. Because of this, full-wave output has twice as many cycles as the input:- Fout=2Fin Therefore the frequency of the full-wave signal is double the input frequency. For example, if the line frequency is 60Hz, the output frequency will be 120Hz.