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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what I was thinking. Depending on the supply that'll start a fire.

[โ€“] vithigar 15 points 1 day ago

It's a basic AC rectifier, the resistor represents an arbitrary DC load. You use similar circuits all the time, though generally with additional failsafes and some mechanism of smoothing out the rectified current.