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In a sense, you're right. Although it's perhaps not the style of AC you were thinking of. Inside every DC-DC conversion circuit there's one or more energy storage elements charging and discharging repeatedly. This internal waveform is AC. It's not sinewave AC, but it's technically alternating current.



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