Bridge rectifier power supply

Scenario

A technician needs a quick schematic for the textbook AC-to-DC rectifier: a transformer secondary, four rectifier diodes, a reservoir capacitor, and a load. The netlist form keeps the topology precise while the renderer chooses the schematic placement.

Annotation key

• D1 to D4 are ordinary diode components inferred from the D prefix.
• 0 is the canonical ground net.
• C1 smooths the rectified output across vout and ground.

How to read

During each half-cycle, two diodes conduct and steer current into vout with the same polarity. The capacitor charges near the peak and supplies the load between peaks, reducing ripple at Rload.