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Well, yeah, but this actually goes beyond those that first rectify.

E.g. bridge less totem-pole designs where rectifying and the active power factor correction stage are fused, would also work unless the firmware gets confused by the lack of input polarity flipping.

And yes, that topology can also go into a flyback transformer or pretty much any other unipolar magnetic of an SMPS.



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