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Why the transformer is used in rectifier circuit?

vacuum tube rectifier & semiconductor diode rectifier.

The transformer in a rectifier power supply circuit serves several purposes.

1- used to change the voltage level from the 115VAC to another level, either higher of lower, to accomadate the needs of the rest of the circuit.
2- provides isolation between the power mains and the circuit power for safety reasons. If you touch a hot part of the circuit on the secondary side of the transformer while being grounded, you most likely will not get a shock. If the transformer wasn't in the circuit....you wouldn't be so lucky. Other than very small leakage currents, no current flow's from the primary side of the transformer to the secondary.

3- Some rectifier circuits require a center reference point. This is easy to do with a center tapped transformer winding.

4- Many devices require multiple voltage sources. A transformer can have multiple secondary windings, each wound to produce a different voltage. An example would be in the tube circuit, where the filaments of a tube might require 6.3vac and the rest of the circuit 600VDC. The transformer is well suited to provide these multiple outputs.

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Such a device is the LED-which stands for light emitting diode. It is a semiconductor material and their extensive use in different devices just shows how great their invention was. A diode is a rectifier that allows current to be made to oscillate in only one direction.

An LED is a special type of diode which emits light, and thinking about the colour it gives, entirely depends upon the material that has been used. LED emits light when electron passes through from one of the plate which results in the creation of a photon-which are called light particles. It was first used in the early nineteen six tees. Initially they only emitted low intensity light; though modern LEDs are available in different colour and are able to emit high intensity colour.

LEDs have come into use in the aviation lighting, traffic signals. To list the advantages the following things can be considered. LEDs produce more energy than the traditional lights and it can be enabled to produce any colour of light. LEDs are especially useful in places where light has to be turned on-off several times reducing the chances of burning out which can happen in case of filament lamps and instead of burning out all of a sudden they become dim when it approaches towards the end limit.

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