{"id":6104,"date":"2025-08-26T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:13:03","slug":"center-tapped-full-wave-rectifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/ee\/rectifiers\/center-tapped-full-wave-rectifier","title":{"rendered":"Center-Tapped Full-Wave Rectifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

The circuit of a center-tapped full-wave rectifier is shown in Figure (a). This circuit is seen to comprise two half-wave circuits which are so connected that conduction takes places through one diode during one half of the power cycle and through other diode during the second half of the power cycle.<\/p>\n

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In this rectifier, a center-tapped step-down transformer has been used, in which the secondary winding is divided into two halves, each half having an equal number of turns. In the N1:N2 center-tapped transformer, the primary winding has N1 turns, and each half of the secondary winding has N2 turns.<\/p>\n

When the center terminal of the secondary winding is grounded, the voltage at nodes a and b will have equal magnitude but opposite sign.<\/p>\n

i.e.,\u00a0 vb=\u2013va`12<\/p>\n

if va = Vm sin \u03b1, then vb = \u2013Vm sin \u03b1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The circuit of a center-tapped full-wave rectifier is shown in Figure (a). This circuit is seen to comprise two half-wave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796,5],"tags":[1802,412],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rectifiers","category-ee","tag-power-cycle","tag-voltage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}