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Subject: 
RE: lego cap, polarity, etc
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:31:45 GMT
Original-From: 
Bruce Boyes <BBOYES@SYSTRONIXavoidspam.COM>
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At 18:58 3/27/2001 -0600, J Kevin McCoy wrote:
> The bridge is able to correctly 'route' the current to the polarized cap so
> that the battery (B) may be connected in either direction, and in this sense
> is able to "correct" the polarity.  This is OK since the cap is "floating".
> An inverter would be needed to change the polarity with respect to a common
> ground.  Is this what you meant?

Yes, thanks for the sketch.

Bruce
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  Re: lego cap, polarity, etc
 
(...) Right, what I was trying to say is that a bridge can't 'invert' a DC input of one polarity to make an output of another polarity - it can't "correct" anything, a diode can only conduct or not conduct. All a bridge can do is route the given DC (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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