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Auto polarity battery charger circuit or what?

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hello friends,

I recently bought a Chinese mobile phone battery charger, the one in which you have to remove the battery from mobile phone and connect it to the leads of the chinese charger to charge it..

When the battery +ve and -ve terminals are properly touched to the leads of the charger, a red led lights up as an indication that the battery has been properly connected and ready to be charged..

What amuses me is that the charger doesnt need the battery to be connected in proper polarity.. you can connect the battery terminals anyways and the red led lights up and the battery also gets charged!!!

My question...

How is the circuit made? why it doesnt need the battery to be connected in a proper polarity?
how does the red led light up when the battery is connected anyway?
can anyone explain me a circuit which would give a fixed polarity output but the circuits input polarity doesnt matter and can be connected anyways.

thank you
 

There is a full wave bridge across the charger output terminals to protect user from inverted connections and cause a breakdown or heating up of the battery.
Some cases lead to explosion of the Ni-cd battery too.
 
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There is a full wave bridge across the charger output terminals to protect user from inverted connections and cause a breakdown or heating up of the battery.
Some cases lead to explosion of the Ni-cd battery too.

ok bridge rectifier...
But i opened it and didn't find diodes making up a bridge rectifier.. Only 2 diodes 1 1n4007 and other one is a zener.
3 resistors and a small ferrite transformer and one 8 pin NO NAME ic...

So where is the bridge rectifier?
 

Probably the 8pin IC is the bridge as this can be four terminals of the diodes
 

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