Week 7

The full circuit, including the capacitors and diodes, was put together and soldered. It will be able to turn the AC current produced from the magnet passing through the coil of copper wire to DC current which is required to charge a phone. The circut is set up in a diamond shape and on the end furthest from the capacitors the anodes are connected from two diodes and on the opposite end the cathodes are connected (see Figure 6). In between thee two ends the anodes and cathodes are connected which allows the current to flow in a sort of one way gate through the diodes. The capacitor's positive ends were soldered to the cathodes of two of the diodes in the rectifier (see Figure 7). The negative ends were then soldered togther. The circuit will be tested over the next lab and the casing design will be completed as well.

Figure 6

Figure 7