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Place a capacitor across the output or load and you have your filter. This assumes that your load is a resistor. The capacitor you use depends on the frequency of the ripple. Lower frequencies require larger capacitors. A resistor may be required to make sure you do not damage any of the electronics either in series with the capacitor or immediately after the power source.

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Why does low pass RC circuit filter the voltage?

In a DC power supply, a low-pass RC filter is typically used to "filter the voltage" by reducing or eliminating any remaining ripple. This works because such ripple has frequency components over 0 Hz (ripple is essentially an AC component with an offset), which are suppressed by the low-pass filter.


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Increasing the load resistance will increase the ripple voltage across the output of the filter capacitor. This is because higher load resistance results in slower discharge of the capacitor, leading to increased fluctuation in voltage output. Conversely, decreasing the load resistance will reduce the ripple voltage as the capacitor discharges more quickly to compensate for changes in load.


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What happens when you lose an input phase on a three phase bridge rectifier?

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