What are the advantage of free wheeling diode in a Full Wave rectifier?

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How Engineering Works Staff asked 7 years ago

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Answer: It reduces the harmonics and it also reduces sparking and arching across the mechanical switch so that it reduces the voltage spike seen in a inductive load.