On 11/07/17 19:55, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:06:55 +0100, Tom Gardner wrote:

It took me 5 minutes to do a spice simulation sufficient to generate
such a picture.

The components were an ideal ac voltage source,
a diode, an ideal capacitor for smoothing, an ideal resistor for the
load, and an ideal resistor in series with the smoothing capacitor
representing the smoothing cap's ESR.

You achieved full-wave rectification using just the above parts? May we
see this remarkable circuit, please?

Half wave rectification is sufficient to show your waveform.

Why do you think full-wave rectification is important? Which
*significant* aspect of your waveform would it change?