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There should not be significant heat from the diodes.

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Al Sekela

In Reply to: RE: Hi Al, I ran across this post on DIY about a year ago. posted by jea48 on January 11, 2008 at 07:49:23

The capacitors are there to provide the low impedance path for the AC current, and the diodes are there to protect the capacitors from reverse-bias in case of an overload. One could specify larger current capacity diodes. Rectifiers are cheap.

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