With a reference-clip from both probes (channel 1 and 2) connected I’m actually shunting around one of the diodes, effectively turning the bridge back into a half-wave rectifier. That’s ...
In general we find two broad types of rectifiers: half-wave rectifiers (HWR) and full-wave rectifiers (FWR). A half-wave rectifier is a device that rectifies only a half cycle of the signal at the ...