Rectifiers, DC Power Supplies and Regulating Transformers

Rectifiers & DC Power

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Riley Surface World started in the days when rectifiers were large units filled with copper with lifting hooks and essential feature because of our origins in the plating industries of Birmingham. Modern rectifiers have advanced into much smaller units based on electronic systems. Rectifiers are important to plating lines as they transform AC (alternating current) to DC (direct current), smothing the current so it's compatible with electroplating.

The modern rectifiers we now supply use semiconductors to "filter out" the AC and only allow the DC to flow through, also known as a diode.

A feature included in all rectifying is regulating transformers to further assist with the transformation of the electrical energy. Used to either lower the voltage for electroplaters or increase it for anodizing.

The method of how these machines work revolves around two sets of magnetic cores, a primary and secondary, wound with conductive wire. The primary core will have an increased number of wire turns in comparison and it is the number of wire turns each core has that determines the ratio of voltage the transformer can produce.