Brassmaster: What's up with the 'rectifier' section?

[Earthscum]

Like the SL says... I'm wondering what's going on with the 'rectifier' section? I'm not quite getting how it's working.

To me, it looks like the positive and negative signals should be cancelling out across the diodes. When the top half goes positive, the bottom goes negative, and vice versa. It looks to me like the only signal the trannsformer's getting is what's left over from the bottom section.

So, does this just make a small square wave equal to whatever the Vf of the diodes is?

And, is there a chance anyone has a pic of the waveform output from the secondaries, or can describe it (more than just a guess, cuz that's already what I'm doing, lol). I'm guessing it's a square LP filtered at around 1.6kHz? Or does that cap just make a resonant peak around 1.6k?

[PRR]

What is a "Brasmaster"?

[R.G.]

What is a "Brasmaster"?

I think he meant "Brassmaster".

[Earthscum]

What is a "Brasmaster"?

I think he meant "Brassmaster".

Yeah, I fixed it.

Basically, I'm curious as to why they used that transformer setup, what's special about the output signal compared to, say, the typical FWR octave-up? I don't have a 10k:10k transformer to just build and investigate this on my own, all I really have is a couple 42TM019's. I've made them work for octave up's, but I really don't know much about this particular circuit.

[Bill Mountain]

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