Electronic – Voltage doubler or not

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I got a quick question! Is the circuit depicted in the link indeed a voltage doubler or is it just a bridge rectifier with smoothing capacitors?

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Best Answer

It's a standard full BR with smoothing capacitors (with the option of using the center tap as circuit ground and having positive/negative rails)

One type of voltage doubler that looks a little similar is this:

Voltage doubler

Note that the above is assuming nothing about the transformer winding ratio, only whether the secondary voltage is doubled by the following circuitry.

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