This was great. I understood the concept already, but seeing it in action was really helpful.

These videos are incredibly helpful, thank you so much for your help!

Thank you so much! Couldn't find any video for smoothing. This is the best tho! Showed this video in my class, and my teacher praised it:)

Great video, very much enjoying the technical content and practical demonstrations to help me better understand 👍

Great to see a video first thing in the morning, never knew capacitors changed ac current into dc, nice to learn something new to help us with the exams, amazing video joe keep up all the hard work you put in to help your student!!!!!

Anther great video Joe 👍

Thanks Joe. I work in the railway as a dual skilled engineer. Having come from a more mechanical apprenticeship I find your videos extremely helpful.

Great video once again👍🏼😆

Exactly what I needed! I have an LED lamp I use for turning wood bowls and the strobe effect is terrible. Will add huge cap to the minuscule power supply and hopefully that will take care of it.

Very interesting and great explanation.👍

Brilliant video

Nice video👍👍

Very interesting and helpful 👍🏼

Really neat! And awesome demonstration setup. Much more viewer friendly than a breadboard. 😂 Keep it up! 😊

Thank you, sir.

Nice video :) thanks :)

Nice vid Joe, hope you show the learners how to reduce the 240v down to say 12v with transformers

good video

nice !

How to calculate the smoothing capacitors

is it okay to go overboard with Capacitor's capacity like installing 56V 22,000 µF capacitor to smooth out 30V 80Amps rectified current? because its the only capacitor I have lying around.

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Great demonstration and explanation sir, I have a doubt, why current discharges slowly from the capacitor when current drops in the input? I mean what role does the capacitor play in order to slow the current or to decrease the amplitude of the wave form

So, what is the value for smoothest capacitor in this circuit?

Hello great video... Am wondering if you could do a reverse of DC to AC and how the capacitor helps to achieve pure sine wave e.g in inverter circuit

What video explains the brightening of the light bulb and it's relationship to RMS

Nice vidio, but how we can determine our capacitance / farad in capacitor ? For our circuit Thank you

Great video. Is that test setup something you made?

Any recommendations of a beginner scope to see wave form?

i have always suspected that this would work to prevent led x-mas lights from strobing at 60 htz. now i wonder if mw lights even have a rectifier in them or are they just off for 50%of the time. and if i add a compositor would they over heat?

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I also want to see how coils behave with oscilloscope in this board. Harmonies, low frequency coils and high frequency coils.. Can you also explain primary filter coils and secondary filter coils with oscilloscope view in this board ?? Thanx

Could a really big capacitor smooth the output of a solar panel? I'm not talking about a huge system. just maybe one solar panel and a micro inverter.

God bless you, my friend . How do we determine the value of the smoothing capacitor suitable for the circuit !! ?? For example, I have a small circuit for determining the water level in the tank. It works on a 9V battery, but I turned it on AC 220V with a 9V transformer and put a standardization bridge (4 diodes IN4001) and a 100 mF capacitor 16V (I chose it randomly) After standardization with my hands a voltage of about 24 volts ..!! How do I choose a suitable capacitor for smoothing !! ?? best regards

I was just wondering. I have a 5v UPS (uninterrupted power supply) for my router. I can unplug and plug the power cable just fine on my router when the power socket on/off switch is on the ON position ( UK power socket with an on/off switch) but as soon as I put the power socket switch to OFF position and I plug the power to the router it restarts. I tried to add a huge capacitor on the UPS but it still interrupts power. Is there a solution to this?

So, what was the value of the last capacitor? That's what I want my converter output to look like.

Good video but please show some calculations too for choosing proper capacitor .. I made a transformer of secondary output 33v 6A when i add capacitor of 63v 6600uf the voltage leads from 33 to around 42v

Is it only capacitors that smooth DC current. Do resistors smooth while dropping current? I thought I heard the term " smoothing resistor"?

great video! i just have a dumb question: if i used this circuit to smooth out occasional drops would this still work?

Hello, what's the name of the board that you are using? Thank you!

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hey I like your device, what's that called? It's like a breadboard with built in components

What happened to Gaz from GSH Electrical....? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

We used to have those green plug-in boards at school in the 1980's. It was good solid stuff; are they still actively used in education or is this from your appreciation of retro kit? The naughty kids used to delight in plugging the 3.5V MES lamp directly into the 12V bench supply to fry the filament. I imagine the school lab tech spent many an unhappy hour re-lamping the things before the next lesson!

How many volts were you smoothing outwwith the caps?

Hi I am a first time viewer and new subscriber. I have just purchased a DPS 5020 and would like to power it from a salvaged 48v transformer. The transformer which came out of a night club and was powering 40 30w pins pots. I want to smooth the rectified waveform and raise the DC voltage to above 50V and provide as smooth waveform as possible as a supply to the DPS 5020. I just don't know how to do the calculation to determine the value of the capacitor. Any advice please? Thank you

So I tried to smoothen the output of a 12V car batter charger (which I used as suppl for a 12v-5V voltage conversion). Result: 12v became 17v. Why?

Your Hameg can't trigger that?

What’s the name of the intro

What is this green board-kit called?

Zero calculations shown...dissappointing.

Bro use capacitor before the diodes