Similar circuitry can be used to create a precision full-wave rectifier circuit.

Full-wave rectifiers may be used in a different configuration to achieve even higher voltages.

A simple example is a full-wave rectifier.

For a full-wave rectifier:

For example, an automobile alternator contains six diodes, which function as a full-wave rectifier for battery charging.

The left-hand side of the full-wave rectifier circuit consists of four diodes: a diode bridge.

A full-wave rectifier converts the whole of the input waveform to one of constant polarity (positive or negative) at its output.

The following standards all specify the weighting filter shown above, together with a special slow-quasi-peak full-wave rectifier designed to register any brief speed excursions.

Simple off-line switched mode power supplies incorporate a simple full-wave rectifier connected to a large energy storing capacitor.

The 5Y3 is a medium-power directly heated full-wave rectifier vacuum tube introduced by RCA in 1935.

"Full-wave" versions with two separate plates were popular because they could be used with a center-tapped transformer to make a full-wave rectifier.

Three-phase rectifiers, especially three-phase full-wave rectifiers, have much greater efficiencies because the ripple is intrinsically smaller.

Half-wave rectifiers only have one side of a waveform, while the full-wave rectifiers use both sides of a waveform.

An 'leaky' integrator following a full-wave rectifier - ideal for monitoring of EMG activity levels with 6 switchable time constants.

Historically, these very-low-cost power supplies incorporated a simple full-wave rectifier that conducted only when the mains instantaneous voltage exceeded the voltage on the input capacitors.

Pulsed DC or PDC is the form of wave produced from a half-wave rectifier or a full-wave rectifier.

It was a conventional full-wave rectifier tube with two anodes and one cathode, but was unique in that it had no filament (thus the "0" in its type number).

Rectifiers yield a unidirectional but pulsating direct current; half-wave rectifiers produce far more ripple than full-wave rectifiers, and much more filtering is needed to eliminate harmonics of the AC frequency from the output.

The component value for the inductor can be estimated as an inductance that resonates the smoothing capacitor(s) at or below one tenth of the minimum AC frequency in the power supplied to the filter (100 Hz from a full-wave rectifier in a region where the power supply is 50Hz).