Wavegen question

[lethbrp]

Hi Guys,

Please forgive this noobie question. But I would very much appreciate your thoughts.

I have an oscilloscope that has a wavegen function. I'm using it to generate a standard sin wave with 12v peak to peak amplitude at 1hz. My questions are (and please forgive if these are dumb questions):

1) Could I feed this into a full bridge rectifier to analyse its effect (i.e. see the sin wave going in and the unsmoothed DC coming out?

2) Is this the same as passing a low voltage a/c source into the rectifier?

3) If the above answer is no, then what do people use to wave gen function for?

Many thanks. Once again, I may have asked a really stupid set of questions. Hey, you gotta start somewhere.

[CapLeaker]

Re: Wavegen question

1) google “signal generator full bridge rectifier”
2) yes, just calculate in the voltage drop of each diode
3) I use the tone generator for alignments or test signal in amplifiers, also can be used for pulse width modulation. I also used it to design battery desulfators etc. so this is very useful in designing, testing, modulating troubleshooting / repairing electronics like amplifiers or anything that has to do with analog audio. This being said, it isn’t an rf generator (another type of signal generator).

Put a small speaker to it and adjust it to sine wave, 1V peak to peak, 1000hz. You should hear a tone.

No such thing than a stupid question. The only one being stupid would be the person not asking.

[lethbrp]

Re: Wavegen question

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate your help.