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Curious Inventor - Store: Bridge Rectifier
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in stock - price: $0.39
Bridge Rectifier

short description:

This flips negative voltages into positive ones, which is useful if you want to full-wave rectify a sine wave or not worry about hooking up the wrong polarity power cord.

more information and instructions:

1.5A rated load, 50A peak, spec sheet and wiki page about bridge rectifiers.

The pins are spaced .3" and .2" (between pins 1 & 2) apart.

pin1: +, pin2: 1, pin3: ~, pin4: ~