Mike Ring wrote:

when the reverse phase comes along your LED does not go pop!



I am told the LED will not pop, the reverse current is limited by the
resistor to the forward current, and it can take this quite happily like a
xener.

Think you will find you want the reverse diode anyway, otherwise you are
going to be running your whole circuit half wave rectified since there
will be no path for the return phase!


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Cheers,

John.

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