I'm working on an led lighting project, and was hoping to make it work on any (within a reasonable range) type and rated transformer, a low (under say 35v) AC or DC power source. I'm just an amatuer, so could be off a bit, but was thinking about using a bridge rectifier and voltage regulator to do this. Now as I'm typing, I realize the power source will also have a minimum power requirement I'm guessing 2v above whatever the circuit needs because that's the cut off (?) of most regulators?
But even more of a question to me, is what happens if you feed DC to a Bridge rectifier? Does it cut the signal in half or something like that? I mean if it keeps the sign wave of an AC source all on the positive side, essentially flipping the 'bottom' half of the AC sine wave, then what does it actually do w/ the DC current, or would it pass through unaffected?
Also what happens w/ DC power through a voltage regulator, if the regulator has a 2v cutoff (?) and you feed 12-14 volts to a 12 volt regulator, does it still pass the voltage unregulated, not at all, or what?
But even more of a question to me, is what happens if you feed DC to a Bridge rectifier? Does it cut the signal in half or something like that? I mean if it keeps the sign wave of an AC source all on the positive side, essentially flipping the 'bottom' half of the AC sine wave, then what does it actually do w/ the DC current, or would it pass through unaffected?
Also what happens w/ DC power through a voltage regulator, if the regulator has a 2v cutoff (?) and you feed 12-14 volts to a 12 volt regulator, does it still pass the voltage unregulated, not at all, or what?
yes and you will loose ~ 0.6 of a Volt
