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Inside a 12 volt battery charger, one of the main components is a transformer used to lower the supply voltage to 14 VAC. The other main component is the diode bridge. It is a full wave bridge network which uses four diodes for voltage rectification. The open circuit output of the battery charger is about 13.8 VDC. So, no a battery charger is not a rectifier but it used the process of rectification in its operation.
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How does a 9 volt battery charger work?
I'm not 100% sure, I came on this post seeking an answer to the same question... But, I do have a general idea of how it works. Basically AC current flows from the wall socket through a cord until it gets to the weird box that is in all computer chargers. This box I assume to be a rectifier. This rectifies, or converts AC to DC thus allowing the current to flow the rest of the length of the cord and charge your battery. Trivial fact: A mac book charger has a single wire coming from rectifier to computer. How is this possible? Doesn't DC operate on two poles? Correct, it does. The charger has an inner wire and an outer wire which are insulated from each other. Hope I helped some.
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How does a 9 volt battery charger work?
I'm not 100% sure, I came on this post seeking an answer to the same question... But, I do have a general idea of how it works. Basically AC current flows from the wall socket through a cord until it gets to the weird box that is in all computer chargers. This box I assume to be a rectifier. This rectifies, or converts AC to DC thus allowing the current to flow the rest of the length of the cord and charge your battery. Trivial fact: A mac book charger has a single wire coming from rectifier to computer. How is this possible? Doesn't DC operate on two poles? Correct, it does. The charger has an inner wire and an outer wire which are insulated from each other. Hope I helped some.
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The meter on your battery charger will be in the green
