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Old 02-21-2011, 10:05 PM   #1
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Nah, not bizzaro - pretty typical diode application, similar to how the AC current from the stator is 'rectified' to DC current by only allowing the 'positive' voltage through (but with only 2 legs instead of 3).
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Old 02-21-2011, 10:10 PM   #2
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Nah, not bizzaro - pretty typical diode application, similar to how the AC current from the stator is 'rectified' to DC current by only allowing the 'positive' voltage through (but with only 2 legs instead of 3).
I say 'bizarro' because, if you follow the path that current would take (well actually opposite to the path, since flow is from negative to positive opposite to the old theory, that all of the component symbols were designed to follow), current feeds from the display straight back into the opposite signal through that bridge. Dumb, if you're designing for an LED system, but they weren't designing for LEDs.
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