Hello, doing schoolwork, nearly done, but I dont know what to make of one thing.
We were doing works on diode rectifier, we reached 3phase full wave rectifiers with having a source voltage of 24 VA on a single phase. We had hooked up a multimeter to read the DC readings across a load and it gave us ~32 V. According to the formula (3*SQRT(3)*Vpeak)/PI() it should read roughly 56 V. However there is a massive difference, why ? I do not know if the phases were 120 degress apart or not and im fairly certain it was fullwave not half wave rectified. Could anybody enlighten me on what is going on in here ? Also could anyone enlighten me why the average voltage of 56 V is above the amplitude of 34 V ?