Volts, amps and electric power supplies/components

So, what does 'cascode' imply to you?

Or 'Darlington'..?

Or 'Buck regulator'?

Its the fact that it makes use of both positive and negative halves of the waveform, that makes it a full wave rectifier.

A constant current source and a current limit are two differnt things. Not sure how or where sample and hold comes in to it as the key here seems to be to use passive devices rather than active.

You seem to having difficulties again. I'll cross post this to a more appropriate group; hopefully someone there will have the fortitude to assist you with these definitions.

y do you knowitall trolls always change the subject when someone is about to prove you wrong?

I know perfectly well what they are. The point is that what they are is absolutely NOT '*implies a certain mode of operation*'.

Oh dear. Sounds like someone's been on the gin again. ;->

We seem to have got ourselves a new troll :/ He's acting the idiot in s.e.d as well.

NT

You're not coming over as being very bright.

With just the one rectifier, would you be the sort of person to call this circuit a "voltage halfer"?

He's clearly never heard of the proverb, "when you're in a hole, stop digging."

What are you trying to prove? Giving a partial description of a device and out of context as well doesn't prove a point. There are hundreds of terms that you can do this with such as Foster (seeley discriminator);Black (level clamping);Line (flyback EHT) or Line (output level) . Doesn't prove anything.

Have you heard the one about the man who bought two 9v batteries and connected them in series to make a voltage doubler?

Mathematically yes, but try grabbing a live wire that has an average of zero....

Yip, take a bridge rectifier, like this:

But split the connections at the top and bottom of the bridge so the diodes are no longer connected together. One halfwave charges one capacitor, one half charges the other, now connect the capacitors in series.

Did it work? ;->