My apologies, Dave ... I stand corrected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_bridge
I've never seen a bridge used like this.
bs
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Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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> Hi Bob,
>
> Better check out the theory & trace out the paths first. The full wave
> bridge is a common way to make a DC device non polarity sensitive.
> Steering diodes would be another description.
>
> Dave Russell
>
> Bob Spidell wrote:
> > re:
> >
> > "If a full wave bridge rectifier were connected between the supply
> > connections & the permanent magnet motor, the supply polarity could
> > be connected to the motor either way & it would still run in the same
> > direction"
> >
> >
> > Don't think so. Rectifiers (diodes, usually arranged as half- or
> > full-wave bridges) are used to convert AC current into a "lumpy" DC
> > current, which is usually smoothed with capacitors. A full-wave
> > bridge rectifier on a DC current (Healey "power supply") would just
> > pass the current (to only one of its outputs).
> >
> >
> > bs
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