I am a beginner in hardware design with zero industry experience, trying to figure out things from first principle. With that being said, why are these two schottky diodes added in parallel to the polarised capacitors? I understand the diodes are placed in shunt configuration to provide safe path for the reverse current in case there is event of reverse polarity. However, C1 and C2 are polarised capacitors and will that reverse polarity not damage them? Moreover if we have already included LM5050 for reverse polarity and reverse protection what is the need of these shunt diodes?
