5Spice simulation

A free spice program is available from http://www.5spice.com/ . Using this program, the voltage and current waveforms may be observed.

Full Wave Bridge and Filter

Voltage Waveforms

Current Waveforms

Capacitive-Inductive Filter

Ripple Factor

The significance of ripple in the output is somewhat dependent on the average output voltage. The lower the average value, the more important it is to reduce ripple.