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 CONTENTS

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Acknowledgement

AIM

Introduction

Rectifier Circuit

Half-Wave Rectifier

Peak Inverse Volta

Ripple Factor

Form Factor

Peak Factor
 RECTIFIER CIRCUIT

• The arrow on the diode ( ) indicates

the direction of the current in the diode
• Because of the diode, the alternating
current in the load resistor is reduced to
the positive portion of the cycle
 HALF-WAVE RECTIFIER

• The solid line in the graph is the result

through the resistor
• It is called a half-wave rectifier because
current is present in the circuit during only
half of each cycle
THE HALF-WAVE RECTIFIER

input vol
TRANSIENT RESPONSE
HALF-WAVE RECTIFIER
Peak Inverse Voltage

When the input voltage reaches its maximum

value Vm during the negative half cycle the
voltage across the diode is also maximum.
This maximum voltage is known as the peak
inverse voltage. Thus for a half wave rectifier

Let Vi be the voltage to the primary of the

transformer. Vi is given by

where Vr is the cut-in voltage of the diode.

Ripple Factor
Ripple factor is defined as the ratio of rms
value of ac component to the dc component in
the output.
 .

Vav the average or the dc content of the voltage

across the load is given by:
RMS voltage at the load resistance can
be calculated as

Ripple factor

Efficiency
Efficiency, h is the ratio of the dc
output power to
Transformer Utilization Factor
Transformer Utilization Factor, TUF
can be used to determine the rating of
a transformer secondary.

In half wave rectifier the rated voltage

of the transformer secondary is
But actually the RMS current flowing
through the winding is only .

Form Factor
Form factor is given by,
Peak Factor
Peak factor is given by,

Result: -
The output waveform may be observed
in the waveform viewer.