I am building a bridge rectifier using store bought components. I am using 5 X 35A 600V rectifiers.
What I am finding is that if rectifier 1 is producing 1V (hypothetically) and I then attach it to a bus, when I add the second rectifier, it doesn't double as one would expect.
The bus now produces 1.8V (hypothetically). As I increase the number of rectifiers, the voltage across the bus doesn't add as one might expect, such as 5 rectifiers at 1V should theoretically produce 5 V, but instead the efficiency is so poor that it produces less than 3V across the bus.
What is the fix? Is there one? Or is that just the way it is? Am I missing a basic principle in electronics that explains this away? etc...
What I am finding is that if rectifier 1 is producing 1V (hypothetically) and I then attach it to a bus, when I add the second rectifier, it doesn't double as one would expect.
The bus now produces 1.8V (hypothetically). As I increase the number of rectifiers, the voltage across the bus doesn't add as one might expect, such as 5 rectifiers at 1V should theoretically produce 5 V, but instead the efficiency is so poor that it produces less than 3V across the bus.
What is the fix? Is there one? Or is that just the way it is? Am I missing a basic principle in electronics that explains this away? etc...
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